Ethan Meyers, General Assignment Reporter January 22, 2024
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, Calvin students will have the opportunity to travel around the United States with the Service-Learning Center over spring break. Service-learning trips for...
Calvin’s Global Campus — which oversees the Calvin Prison Initiative, online master's degree programs, Life and Career Studies certificates and other non-traditional learning paths — is rolling out...
For most, spring break is a long-awaited time to sit back, relax, sit on a beach, or for those who aren’t as lucky, watch lots of Netflix. However, for a number of Calvin students, spring break was filled...
Last week, a group of 15 Calvin students came together to help move furniture into an apartment for a Bhutanese refugee family that had just arrived in the United States from Nepal. The service project...
The service-learning center (SLC), located in the Commons Annex is an important part of the Calvin community. Through the SLC, each dorm has a partnership with an agency in the Grand Rapids community....
Habits such as eating vegan, buying dye-free dish soap, wearing thick-patterned sweaters and drinking tea out of mason jars have been around for decades as generation after generation of young people tries...
The walls in the Commons Annex office may be neutral in color, but the decor is not. The student coordinators in the Service-Learning Center (SLC) cover their desks with post-its, quotes, photos, magazine...
This summer, Calvin alum Josh Leo, in partnership with Calvin’s Service-Learning Center, released GR Walks, a free smartphone app that provides historical information on the different neighborhoods in...
Last year, 2,200 Calvin students contributed more than 55,000 hours of community service to the Calvin community. This participation, as well as a high emphasis on service-learning throughout Calvin’s...
As you’re poring over your syllabi and mapping out your spring semester accordingly, Jeff Bouman, director of the service-learning center, hopes you will consider taking some time out of it to participate...
For only five dollars; Calvin students could have held a paper plate, heaped with cold whipped cream, and, facing any CLC member they chose, launched it right into the CLC member’s fearful face. This...
When it comes to saving lives, Mary Hollen knows just how far a little blood can go.
“My father had leukemia in his 80s and he got a blood transfusion every two weeks,” she said. “It really kept...
