Community Engagement Activity
This course invites both Whitman students and students at Walla Walla High School's STEP (Students Transitioning into Emplyment Possibilites) program to engge in meaningful, reciprocal learning. Through field trips, guest speakers, discussions, and reflections, these students were able to better understand and articulate what ability and disabilty mean.
Community Engagement Activity
This program serves low to middle income people of any age as they seek to learn more about their finances and how to navigate the world around them. BMAC meets with individuals in a tailored approach to help them in specific, meaningful ways. Classes are taught on budgeting, debt, money mindsets, and more.
Public Service Activity
The Adopt-A-Grandparent program pairs Whitman students with residents at the nearby Odd Fellows senior home. Volunteers establish relationships with their adopted grandparents, helping to improve the quality of life for the residents through consistent companionship. Together, grandparents and volunteers tell stories, play games, listen to music, read books, go for walks, make crafts, and attend weekly programs at Odd Fellows (chair exercise, bingo, etc.)
Public Service Activity
Started in 1994 as part of Jamey Wolverton's psychology thesis, the Whitman Friends Mentor Program builds strong and lasting mentor-mentee relationships between Whitman students and Walla Walla elementary schoolers.
Whitman students join their mentee at recess once a week. Mentees also visit Whitman College each spring for a day long carnival called Mentees to Campus Day.
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