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The head of an international nonprofit that makes homeownership possible each year for thousands of people speaks Tuesday evening with ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert as the university begins a year of focus on service opportunities for future graduates.

From raking leaves to painting front stoops, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students and alumni on Saturday assisted Town of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ residents with sprucing up homes built over the past two decades through Habitat for Humanity.

NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education has selected ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ to participate in a national initiative on civic learning and democratic engagement.

Five alumni with backgrounds in service will participate in a panel on Nov. 6 to connect with students interested in a year of service.

Harvey Newlin Elemantary School is looking for tutors to help with third graders.

Join us Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion for ecumenical worship and to hear students from the Truitt Center and the Kernodle Center share about Faith and Service.

The Global Neighborhood Association in 2014-15 will offer service opportunities for its residents to work with immigrants and refugees in the surrounding community.

Hundreds of first-year and transfer students took part in a “Stop Hunger Now” meal-packing event on Aug. 30, 2014, organized by Campus Kitchen at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

Two dozen members of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Class of 2018 spent six days in July serving meals, building homes with Habitat for Humanity and volunteering at the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club through a program hosted by the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement.