Post Arrupe Engagement
Thank you for your active participation at your Arrupe placements throughout this past quarter. We hope it was an enriching experience to build personal relationships with community members, engage with diverse perspectives, and learn about social justice alongside of our neighboring communities external to SCU. Though your formal commitment to Arrupe Community-based Learning has ended, we are happy to connect you with our Post Arrupe Resource List! We have compiled numerous opportunities below for students who are wanting continued growth and enrichment through:
Direct Engagement Opportunities
Continue with your Arrupe Placement organization
Talk with your site supervisor about ways to stay involved at your Arrupe placement even after your time is finished. Many community organizations need extra volunteer help - check with your site supervisor about ways to stay involved! Please let us know at the Arrupe Engagement Program if you do end up continuing at your placement.
Get involved with a new community agency
Find out how you can get involved as a regular volunteer with any of these great agencies: Santa Maria Urban Ministry, Loaves and Fishes, or Sacred Heart Community Service.
Volunteer with SCU's Thriving Neighbors
SCU’s Thriving Neighbors builds connections between SCU and its nearby neighborhood, the Greater Washington Community of San Jose. If you’d like to get involved with programs that foster education for K-12 Latino students, with a focus on STEM and leadership and Co-create, execute, and evaluate programs to increase capacity development , contact Sr. Program Director Iliana Molina Estrada.
Go on an Immersion
Immersion experiences, local, domestic, and international, are designed to help participants see the world with new eyes, to recognize the unjust suffering of marginalized communities and individuals, and to allow those experiences to inform their vocational discernment. The Ignatian Center strives to empower immersion participants to let the reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering, and engage it constructively. These immersion experiences, and the profound reflection to which they naturally give rise, are privileged moments of vocational discernment during which participants are uniquely invited to consider their place in the world.
Join us for an immersion. Contact Daniella Lubey or visit the immersions website for more information! Scholarships are available.
Additional SCU Opportunities & Opportunities for Reflection
Join an Ignatian Life Community
Ignatian Life Communities (ILC) are a place to explore and grow in spirituality through small group sharing and utilizing the principles of Ignatian Spirituality.
Find your favorite on-campus Meditation Space
The SCU campus offers us so many beautiful spaces that are great environments for meditation and reflection. Try spending some time out of your busy day for meditation in a different space.
Explore Campus Ministry Events
Campus Ministers are available for one-on-one conversations about life, spirituality, and faith, and work to foster the spiritual lives of students through a range of programs, such as liturgies, retreats, small groups, interfaith dinners, and sacramental formation opportunities.
Social Justice and Civic Engagement
Enrich your summer with the Jean Donovan Summer Fellowship
The Jean Donovan Fellowship (JDF) is designed to support undergraduate students who desire to deepen their understanding of social justice issues through a summer community-based learning experience of 6 weeks or longer. The Fellowship provides $3,000 in grant funding to recipients who work a minimum of 35-40 hours/week with a non-profit organization.
Explore opportunities through SCCAP (Santa Clara Community Action Program)
SCCAP is an umbrella organization for 20 different volunteer and activism programs. We are a group of individuals passionate about social justice who believe that we, as students, have the power to positively contribute to our community and be activists!