博彩平台网址大全 students have had a tremendous impact on the communities surrounding its three campuses; students volunteered nearly 290,去年在斯托克顿工作了一千个小时, 萨克拉门托和旧金山.

The community service puts Pacific in the top 10% for service hours compared to other universities of a similar size, based on reporting to the Association for the Advancement of 可持续性 in Higher Education.

By the numbers (Summer 2022 through May 2023):

• 1,490 students engaged in community service
• 24% of students at Pacific participated in volunteer work
• 287,627 total community service hours

Pacific is nearly halfway to its goal of getting 50% of students engaged in some type of community service. Service is an essential component of many university programs and closely tracked. It is also a part of Pacific’s ongoing commitment to sustainability.

“可持续性 has three main pillars: environmental health, social health and economic health. They are all related,” said 可持续性 Director Jessica Bilecki. “Having that community connection gives us a sense of belonging and of being able to make a difference in our communities.”

亚瑟大学的学生. Dugoni School of Dentistry on the 旧金山校区 spent more than 155,000 hours serving the community last year. Third-year dental student Katie Hagan ’24 estimates she spent up to 150 hours planning for events and volunteering, from teaching oral hygiene at elementary schools to providing health screenings for Special Olympics athletes to treating senior citizens at dental clinics.

“It puts everything into perspective,” Hagan said. “Sometimes you lose that in the day-to-day of making sure you’re meeting clinic requirements and the general standards to graduate, but doing events where you’re giving back to the community reminds me why I wanted to go into this career.”

麦乔治法学院的学生, 以萨克拉门托校区为基础, 近64岁,000 hours to the law school’s clinics and helping the community through public service externships.

“It’s impossible to quantify the service to the community our law students have provided for over 50 years and continue to provide,梅丽莎·布朗教授说, 长者协会主任 & 卫生法诊所. “他们的客户信任他们, secrets and confidence with our students, 谁反过来提供道德, competent and compassionate legal services.”

On the 斯托克顿校区, the Thomas J. Long School of 药店 regularly holds Diabetes Care clinics, providing a crucial service where nearly 60% of the community has diabetes or pre-diabetes. The School of Health Sciences also saw a huge turnout earlier this year when the Pacific Hearing and Balance Center provided free hearing screenings with support from audiology students.

Students also are embedded in a variety of non-profit organizations through the College Corps program and provide outreach through the university’s Volunteer Center. A Day of Service was launched during Week of Welcome to provide another opportunity for students, 教职员工要回馈社会.

Pacific is also taking other sustainability initiatives.

• The university is launching an energy audit beginning April 22, 2024. An outside company will evaluate facilities on each of the university’s three campuses to identify ways to conserve energy.
• 有史以来第一次 可持续发展超级明星 will be held April 22, 2024 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Grace Covell Hall to share ideas and celebrate students, faculty and staff doing outstanding sustainability work at Pacific.
• Faculty are finding ways to incorporate sustainability into their curriculums. One of numerous examples includes professors in the School of Health Sciences’ social work and clinical nutrition programs. Students from both disciplines came together on the 萨克拉门托校园 community garden to discuss the connections between gardening, 营养和心理健康. The university is currently exploring the possibility of developing a sustainability major.