Ginsberg Center Core Programs
The Ginsberg Center is home to several community service and learning programs. Undergraduate and graduate students participate in Center programs in Michigan communities and nationwide. They serve meals in soup kitchens, tutor children in schools, rehabilitate abandoned houses, and revitalize urban neighborhoods. They also explore the connections between the service they perform and opportunities to create change through social and political action. As they serve, they learn from the experience and gain skills they will use throughout their lifetime.
- America Reads Tutoring Corps -- In this program, students tutor children in grades K-3 in elementary schools in Michigan's Wayne and Washtenaw Counties with the goal of having them read well and independently by the end of third grade.
- Arts of Citizenship -- In this program, faculty, staff, graduate students and community partners collaborate to foster the role of the arts, humanities and design in civic and community life.
- Michigan AmeriCorps Partnership -- In this program, graduate and undergraduate students work in Detroit-based nonprofit organizations on projects such as program facilitation, business plan development, grant research and writing, and community organization.
- Project Community -- In this program, students enroll in sociology courses that combine formal academic learning with community service in the areas of criminal justice, health, education and community development.
- SERVE -- In this set of programs, students develop leadership skills and address social justice issues through community service and social action. Our student-led programs include Alternative Spring Break; Alternative Weekends; Volunteers Involved Every Week; Issue Education and Awareness; North American Summer Service Team; and World Service Team.