Summer Programs

Summer Service Learning Program
The Summer Service Learning Program is an eight-week service-learning course for approximately 200 students each year.  The participating students work with agencies across the United States, reaching out in multiple ways to people in need.  Notre Dame Alumni Clubs, the James F. Andrews Scholarship Fund, and other donors award tuition scholarships to students at the completion of the course requirements.  SSLP students earn three credits in theology for the orientation in the spring semester, reading and writing assignments during the summer, and the follow-up sessions when they return to campus.  The application process begins on November 1 and remains open until March 1 or until all the sites are filled.

International Summer Service Learning Program
Despite dramatic changes throughout the world, we continue to see a widening economic disparity between the rich and the poor. The lack of basic resources, access to health, education, and employment remains the challenge for developing and non-industrialized nations. In nations marred by political conflict and violence, efforts of peace, reconciliation, and democratization are slow and its affects are seen most clearly in the lives of the poor. As we continue to face these and other global concerns, the need to educate students about their responsibility in our global community becomes ever apparent. The International Summer Service- Learning Program (ISSLP) provides a chance to examine causes of poverty and to create links of solidarity across borders.

Latino Leadership Intern Program
The purpose of this internship is to provides ND students exposure and experience in Latino communities in metropolitan Chicago where they serve as leader and student of the community in which they are working. Students have the opportunity to witness and contribute to the strengths, issues and needs of the Latino community in our country. Leadership is emphasized. Student interns will live in a Latino community for 8 weeks during the summer. The LLIP is an academic, three credit course that includes a scholarship and living stipend.

ACCION
The mission of ACCION  is to give people the tools they need to work their way out of poverty. By providing "micro" loans and business training to poor women and men who start their own businesses, ACCION's partner lending organizations help people work their own way up the economic ladder, with dignity and pride. The ACCION Network operates in 20 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, and in the U.S. In 1998 a partnership began between the ACCION USA and the Center for Social Concerns to sponsor student interns who are finishing their junior year in the College of Business.  Student interns offer their business and technical skills to the organization and benefit from the opportunity to work for 10 weeks in a dynamic micro-lending organization.  Student participants earn 2 credits in business and one credit in theology.