Community Engagement Programs and Partnerships (CEPP) is sponsoring two trips next spring. During the first week of March break, participating students and faculty will head back to New Orleans to participate in the ongoing work of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. Then in June, the week after Graduation, participating students and faculty will travel to New Mexico to join alumna Claire Open ‘06 in her work with a Navajo community outside of Albuquerque. Parents can attend one of two informational meetings on Parents’ Weekend: Friday in Cox Library from 5:30–6 p.m. or Saturday in Wigg Hall from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Any questions before the meeting (or if you cannot attend) can be sent to anne_kaufman@milton.edu or community_engagement@milton.edu.
In other CEPP news, more than 400 Class III and IV students and their advisors fanned out across Milton and surrounding neighborhoods on October 10 to participate in community engagement at a variety of locations. Students did yard work at Milton Hospital, prepared lunches at Father Bill’s shelter, harvested food at the Urban Farming Institute, landscaped at the Franklin Park Zoo, and helped out at the Hebrew Senior Life Center and in classrooms at the Taylor Elementary School, to name just a few.