Alternative Spring Break applications see ‘dramatic drop-off’
Alternative Spring Break (ASB) had to allow second-round applications for 13 of 18 trips this year as the program has seen a dramatic drop-off in interest in its 26th year.
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ThanksGiving Back draws 94 applicants in first year
The idea of service-learning trips during Stanford’s weeklong Thanksgiving break was originally proposed a couple years ago
Reinventing Spring Break
ASB is a Stanford program affiliated with the Haas Center for Public Service that allows students to go to various parts of the country on service and service-learning trips. This year’s ASB program had a total of 17 trips with topics ranging from veteran’s health care to education reform in New York to food issues in the Bay Area to the California prison system, all of which exposed students to a variety of social and cultural issues through education as well as hands-on service.