Learning Through Service

The Ginsberg Center's mission is to engage students, faculty and community members in learning together through community service and civic engagement in a diverse, democratic society.

Through service, community partnerships and social justice education, the Ginsberg Center enriches student learning, advances community priorities and inspires a lifelong commitment to citizenship. The Ginsberg Center offers a range of programs and works with students and faculty to strengthen community service learning across the University of Michigan.

The America Reads Tutoring Corps trains undergraduate work-study students as reading tutors and places them in elementary schools with long-term patterns of low achievement.

Interfaith Action brings students from diverse faith communities together through service in order deepen respect and understanding.

Project Community is a sociology course in which students complement their academic readings and discussions by serving with local organizations.

In SERVE, students lead five service and social action programs like Alternative Spring Break and Volunteers Involved Every Week that address a range of issues in Southeast Michigan, across the United States and abroad.