Volunteering

Reaching Beyond Yourself

Volunteering in community service can be one of the most fulfilling opportunities you'll find at Clarkson. By reaching out and offering your energy, talent and compassion, you can make a real difference in people's lives. Through service to others, students gain a better understanding of themselves, demonstrate classroom learning, and increase leadership, teambuilding , and management skills.

That's why service is a core value of Clarkson; it benefits both the students and the community. Service helps develop a sense of social responsibility and civic pride. By helping others in need, your participation in volunteer experiences will lead to the betterment of the larger community while enriching your own life.

Clarkson students, faculty, and staff participate in community service while maintaining awareness of their roles as members of the following communities: Clarkson, Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York State, the United States, and the world.

We strive to be active participants in these communities and to make a positive difference in them. In collaboration with student organizations and individual students, faculty and staff, the Office of Co-Curricular Education and Programs seeks to unite Clarkson community members and service opportunities. 

Clarkson students and student organizations initiate numerous hours of service, whether raising funds through pancake breakfasts, haunted houses, organizing blood drives, or taking the  lead on Breast Cancer Research Fund Raising, to name just a few.

To collaborate on a project or to suggest an idea to share around campus, please take a look at what is currently being going on by visitng the activities web site or you can contact Director Paula Wilmot at 315-268-6680 or e-mail her at pwilmot@clarkson.edu.