Learning at Colgate does not stop when students go on break. Students volunteer in the Dominican Republic on a recent spring break.

The COVE continues to offer educationally meaningful service trips over winter and spring break. Alternative break trips are not discrete one-week experiences. In addition to committing to a work-intensive week, students are responsible for attending pre-departure meetings that introduce the participants to the community and organization with which they will be working and the critical issues with which they will be dealing.  Read more

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In Fiscal Year ’13, COVE expanded on its mission to cultivate a community of students who will be leaders in social responsibility and community engagement by launching a Social Innovation Initiative, designed to support students in the pursuit of innovative, transformative, and sustainable solutions to social problems.

We believe that the problems facing today’s world are more complex than ever before, and solutions require interdisciplinary thinking and cross-sector collaboration. More than 100 students participated in the initiative throughout the year gaining skills in new ways to positively impact the world.  Read more

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Colgate University was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This designation is the highest honor a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement.

Colgate University has a long history of service-learning and believes strongly in preparing our graduates to be active leaders and participants in an ever changing world,” said Krista Saleet, Director of Max A. Shacknai Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE). “We’re honored to receive this prestigious award – and owe much of it to the students themselves. They’re the energy driving our commitment and they’re the ones who make it all happen.”  Read more

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The Max Shacknai COVE turned lunchtime into engagement time in Fiscal Year ’13. A series of brown-bag lunches, open to all students, staff, and faculty, helped volunteer teams raise awareness on specific issues related to their work in the community.

This year, the COVE hosted brown bags on a wide array of topics pertinent to the local and national community and highlighted social issues ranging from public health to social responsibility to community advocacy.  Read more

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Colgate students extend their helping hands to the elderly residents of the Madison Lane Apartments.

The Max Shacknai COVE exists through the efforts of individuals. During the course of Fiscal Year ’13, our work has drawn attention — and provided us with the opportunity to recognize the work of others.

Levine/Weinberg Fellowship
The COVE selects students annually for the Levine/Weinberg Endowed Summer Fellowship. This fellowship provides highly qualified students, interested in pursuing a career in community and/or public work, with summer internship funding in the field of direct community service. This year’s recipients are:  Read more

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Students take part in the Speak Out against Sexual Assault march on the Colgate Campus.

The Max Shacknai COVE advises 38 student-led, community-based volunteer teams. These teams cover a wide range of issues and help students build an abundance of skills. Approximately 650 students representing about 25 percent of the Colgate population participate regularly in a volunteer team. In Fiscal Year ’13, volunteer teams performed more than 26,500 hours of direct service in the local community.  Read more

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Colgate students volunteer at the Hamilton Center For The Arts in downtown Hamilton as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

Interfaith Service Initiative
In Fiscal Year ’13, the COVE strengthened bonds with the interfaith community, building off of our commitment to the White House Interfaith Service Challenge initiated last year. The COVE partnered with the All Beliefs Community (ABC) in two days of service with Roots and Wings in Norwich, helping with food distribution for the organization’s Food Sense food stamps program. Volunteers from the ABC participated in the COVE’s MLK Day of Service. The COVE helped gather volunteers for some of the many service activities of Colgate’s religious groups.  Read more

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