In these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies
for life,
for work and
for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the
capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solution.
I still hold a long - standing commitment
for leading students in developing
civic engagement, personal maturity, academic achievement and leadership
capacity.