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Service Focus Students Meet Peer Cohorts & Faculty Mentors

The start of the academic year is always full of firsts. First day on campus, first meal, first class. And last week, the University’s Service Focus program experienced its own first. Over dinner, the 82 sophomores taking part in Service Focus met the peers and faculty mentors they will be working with throughout the academic year. Service Focus is a collaboration of the Office of the Dean of the College, the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, and the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, and aims to bridge service and learning at Princeton.

Service Focus begins. As the inaugural class of #ServiceFocus students returned to campus this fall, they met for dinner to meet their faculty mentors and the peers they’ll be working with all academic year to bridge service and learning at Princeton University. Here I share an inside look on what students and faculty are looking forward to in working together outside the classroom.

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New program makes Service Focus central to Princeton student experience

This story originally appeared on the Princeton University homepage. What’s your service focus? That’s the question Princeton students will consider as part of a new program that bridges service and learning across the first two years of the undergraduate experience. The Service Focus program will bring undergraduates together to explore the meaning of service and its place in their lives during an intensive yearlong experience.

A great story to launch the start of this great program at Princeton University. It’s a testament to how good planning yields good results. With photography, key messages, and key spokespeople lined up, putting this together with the Princeton University Office of Communications was a breeze.