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Being the change
By Cynthia J. Drake
CMU’s Volunteer Center is lodged in a three-room office in the basement of the Bovee University Center.
Small and unassuming, the center only differs from other offices in the bright handwritten fliers and posters that adorn its doorframe and the laughter that comes from the students who work in the office.
But the reach of the Volunteer Center is so much farther than this square footage. It tunnels beyond the Bovee University Center, beyond the campus, Mount Pleasant, or even Michigan.
Through the Volunteer Center, students can actually change the course of people’s lives through their work and can learn something about the world and themselves far away from the confines of the classroom.
Here are a few stories of the people who, for one reason or another, found the little office at Bovee University Center 107 and made a big difference.
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Recreation, parks, and leisure services administration students help build an accessible playground as a service-learning project.
Professor Patty Janes and students clear the rubble from Hurricane Katrina devastated sites in Mississippi.
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