Ways to Get Involved

Civic Engagement Opportunities

• Community Action Day - A meaningful, high-impact day of service and community building with students, faculty, staff, and fellow community members.
• Martin Luther King Day of Service - A community resource drive for local social service agencies and community partners.
• Tunnel of Oppression - An interactive social justice awareness event.
• Shack-a-Thon - A fundraiser and demonstration to simulate and combat the impact of hunger and homelessness.
• Relay for Life - A community-wide fundraising event to support cancer research, education, advocacy, and service.
• Take Back The Night - A campaign to raise awareness about sexual violence and abuse while advocating for survivors.
• Earth Day - A series of events designed to enhance our awareness of, and commitment to, environmental sustainability.
• Student Organizations
• Greek Life
• Semester in the South - A semester-long experience for first-semester Building Trades students to learn new building technologies while restoring and rebuilding homes in hurricane-devastated New Orleans, LA, and Bay St. Louis, MS. Watch the Semester in the South video.
• Haiti Rebuilding Team - A semester-long fundraising and community-building program that culminates in a short-term service trip to Haiti over the summer to rebuild in the aftermath of the earthquake
• Academics
  • Human Services
  • Human Services Management
  • Nursing (Pay it Forward)
  • Agriculture and Veterinary Technology
  • Green Home
  • Culinary Arts - Students and faculty, in cooperation with St. Bonaventure University (Olean) participate once a month in feeding community patrons at the Warming House – a public hunger outreach program.

Opportunities to Lead

• Join your Hall Council or the Campus Round Table (CRT) - Lead where you live by getting involved in your Residence Hall Council or the community-wide Campus Round Table (CRT) and contribute to programming that happens right in your building. Contact your Resident Advisor (RA) or Resident Director (RD) to find out more.
• Serve on Student Senate - Make your voice heard by attending campus-wide Student Senate meetings, or serve as a representative for your Residence Hall or student organization.
• Join the Alfred Programming Board (APB) (login required) - Actively work to bring concerts, comedians, game shows, trips and travel activities, scholastic bowl, poetry slams, talent shows, and just about any activity you could ask for to campus.
• Join the Commuter Council (login required) - Enhance the commuter student experience and advocate for commuter student rights by joining the Commuter Council, which meets bi-weekly to provide feedback to the college, plan activities, and discuss issues. Membership includes students of all ages. For more information contact the adviser, Dr. Aniko Constantine, by e-mail: constaav@alfredstate.edu or phone: (607) 587-4184.
• Start a student organization - Bring your idea to life by rallying students to organize around a common interest or cause. There are already several active student organizations on campus, but you also have the option of starting your own. To become a recognized campus organization:
  1. Contact Spencer Peavey, director of student activities and orientation, by e-mail peaveysc@alfredstate.edu or phone (607) 587-4074 to discuss the concept behind the club and learn more about funding requirements.
  2. Identify and connect with a faculty/staff adviser and develop a constitution.
  3. Choose club officers, set a meeting schedule, and start planning events.

As long as student interest supports a concept, the Office of Student Activities will work to make that concept a reality.

• Go Greek - Be a leader in the classroom, in your community, and within an established brotherhood or sisterhood by being part of a Greek organization.