alternative service break

Mar 6, 2024

Alternative Service Break Opens New Worlds for Past, Present, Future NC State Students

For over 20 years, NC State’s Alternative Service Break Program has provided students with opportunities to make a difference in the world and learn about different cultures. 

Mar 10, 2020

A Spring Break That Inspires

Each year, hundreds of NC State students fan out across the the globe for unique service and cultural exchange experiences. 

Jul 20, 2017

Sharing Sustainability In Senegal

A study abroad experience in Scotland and an Alternative Service Break trip to Belize are how NC State graduate Jack Alcorn ended up in Senegal on a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps. 

May 3, 2016

Sustainability Fund Gives 15 Grants for 2016

The NC State Sustainability Fund gives 15 grants totaling $161,000 for campus sustainability projects. 

Jan 7, 2015

Carnegie Lauds NC State for Service

NC State is again recognized for its culture of student service and engagement. See how the university's work improves lives on campus and around the world. 

Mar 12, 2013

Spring Service

NC State's commitment to service goes beyond the campus itself. Over spring break, students traveled as far as Alaska, Rome and Belize on Alternative Service Break trips. 

Mar 5, 2013

Service Efforts Get Presidential Nod

NC State's high-intensity service efforts landed the university on the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. 

Mar 8, 2011

Globally Engaged

NC State students, faculty and staff have fanned out across the world this week, taking part in a wide array of Alternative Service Break opportunities that support our university-wide mission of service to others. Follow along as our teams check in with updates from the road. 

Jan 25, 2011

At Your Service

Senior engineering major Justin Boucher (right) didn't spend Spring Break 2010 toting beach chairs and downing frosty beverages. Instead, he joined a group of classmates on an Alternative Spring Break trip to Nicaragua, where he transformed cinderblocks, bags of mortar and wheelbarrows of dirt into sinks, showers and washing stations for needy local residents. 

Mar 15, 2010

Reaching Out

From educating Tlingit schoolchildren in Alaska to exploring health-care issues in the Dominican Republic, NC State students are continuing the university's legacy of Spring Break service on a national and international level. See how our students are changing the world this week - one day at a time.