alternative spring break
Behrend’s Alternative Breaks (BAB) Program is a recurring program offered through Civic and Community Engagement.
The Alternative Spring Break Trip aims for participants to make a positive, lasting impact on the communities they serve.
Since 1996, we have been offering a week-long Alternative Spring Break service trip that provided participants—24 students and 4 trip advisers—with a complete immersion into a community that may be very different from their own.
These experiences are designed to engage students on multiple levels including:
- personal development,
- group and team dynamics,
- and public service.
Through the process of reflection and civil discourse, participants are challenged to grow as individuals and rethink previous assumptions about others and society as a whole.
Student participants and trip advisers are selected from an application process. All full-time, matriculated students are eligible to apply. In addition to the application review, applicants may be evaluated on academic/GPA standing and conduct.
Read about a Student’s Experience: Grant Walker, Finance Major, Puerto Rico 2024
alternative spring break
Behrend’s Alternative Breaks (BAB) Program is a recurring program offered through Civic and Community Engagement.
The Alternative Spring Break Trip aims for participants to make a positive, lasting impact on the communities they serve.
Since 1996, we have been offering a week-long Alternative Spring Break service trip that provided participants—24 students and 4 trip advisers—with a complete immersion into a community that may be very different from their own.
These experiences are designed to engage students on multiple levels including:
- personal development,
- group and team dynamics,
- and public service.
Through the process of reflection and civil discourse, participants are challenged to grow as individuals and rethink previous assumptions about others and society as a whole.
Student participants and trip advisers are selected from an application process. All full-time, matriculated students are eligible to apply. In addition to the application review, applicants may be evaluated on academic/GPA standing and conduct.
Read about a Student’s Experience: Grant Walker, Finance Major, Puerto Rico 2024