Center for Civic Engagement
Alternative Break Service-Learning Trips
Service-Learning trips at Susquehanna University
SU CASA (Susquehanna University Central America Service Adventure)
SU CASA is a two-week service-learning course and mission trip taught and led by SU Chaplain Mark Radecke. Participants travel to Costa Rica and Nicaragua and earn two semester hours of academic credit while serving at mission sites including: congregations, clinics, refugee and immigrant communities, hospitals, and an orphanage on Isla Ometepe, a volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua. The trip takes place during the last two weeks of winter break.
Contact: Chaplain Mark Radecke, Email: radecke@susqu.edu
Go to SU CASA website
SU CASA Belize
SU CASA Belize is a ten day service-learning trip to the Central American country of Belize. The service focuses on providing medical care in impoverished villages and areas of Belize. The trip takes place in May, the week after graduation.
Contact: Chaplain Mark Radecke, Email: radecke@susqu.edu
Go to SU CASA Belize website
SU PLUS (Susquehanna University Philippines: Learning, Understanding, Service)
PLUS is a service learning trip to the Philippines in May for two weeks. The program includes educational, service, and recreational components, all oriented around cultural immersion in the Philippines. The program began with an academic course on Philippine history, culture, religion, language, and cuisine during the spring semester.
Contact: Dr. Jeff Mann, Email: jmann@susqu.edu
Go to SU PLUS website
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SU SPLASH (SU Students Promoting Leadership & Awareness in Serving the Homeless)
In the spirit of the University’s commitment to service, this event is a one-week service-learning opportunity for incoming first-year students to get engaged in a directed volunteer project coordinated by the Center for Volunteer Programs and the Chaplain’s Office. Twenty selected students work alongside SU faculty, staff, and upper-level peer mentors and are immersed in service projects and learning activities focused on homelessness, serving people in need in both the SU neighborhood and our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
Contact: M. Andy Nagy, Email: nagya@susqu.edu
Go to SU SPLASH page
SU HRT (Susquehanna University Hurricane Relief Team)
SU HRT is a service team consisting of approximately 20students, faculty, and staff who travel to the Gulf Coast to assist with Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Trips take place during winter, spring, and summer breaks. Service projects have included house gutting, de-molding, and painting, tutoring, baseball field and playground construction, tree removal and brush crew work, mural painting, and animal shelter support. Hurricane Katrina was a life-changing disaster for millions; at Susquehanna, we are committed in helping the affected area through multiple week-long service excursions during the year. Disaster Impacts in Society is the service-learning course that complements the HRT trips.
Contact: M. Andy Nagy, Email: nagya@susqu.edu
Go to SU HRT page
Collegiate Challenge- Habitat for Humanity
Collegiate Challenge is Habitat for Humanity’s year-round alternative break program that provides opportunities for students from youth groups, high schools and colleges to spend a week of their school break building a house in partnership with a Habitat for Humanity affiliate in the United States.
Go to HfH website
