The stereotypical college spring break is a study in excess. Last month, 14 first-year students at the College of Charleston eschewed this tradition, instead studying sustainability—both environmental ...

For many college students, the words “spring break” conjure up images of lying on an exotic beach — or at least the couch. For 211 Georgetown students and four faculty members, however, last week’s ...

As classes paused for Spring Break, many students returned home to see family, went on fun trips with friends, or took advantage of unique study abroad opportunities. For those who stayed local, the ...

I just came back from my third Alternative Spring Break trip, and it was refreshingly wonderful. Every year on these trips, one song emerges as the “trip song.” It usually comes from a set of three ...

Ten student leaders organized five alternative spring break trips this March, bringing student groups to Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, New York City, California, and Mississippi, where they learned how people ...

For many students, spring break brings to mind a sunny vacation on a Miami beach. But for those who participate in Alternative Spring Break (ASB), this vision could not be any further from the truth.

In a little over a month, many students will be getting ready to go back home, see family, or go on an exciting spring break vacation. But for the students of Alternative Breaks, spring break has a ...

"Beyond Orange is the New Black: Mass Incarceration in the U.S." The students traveled with CCEL to southeast Michigan to hear from various community organizations on how they help reform and ...

While some Bowdoin students spent this year’s spring break with family, friends, or teammates, others took a different path, joining various service trips across—and outside—the country. Alternative ...

The initial stages of an Alternative Spring Break van ride: a baker’s dozen semi-strangers squeezed into a rented vehicle where dozing neighbors drool on each other’s shoulders and awkward exchanges ...

Sacramento State students, staff and faculty got dirty on their down time to give back to the community as part of Alternative Spring Break 2024. A volunteer works on crafting a bench on the Sac State ...

You get to see Chicago as a tourist, and then you also get to start to place yourself within the communities and actually do work and engage and connect.” Zia Robbins Weinberg Junior and ASB Student ...