Volunteer
Founded in 1996, this office connects students with various volunteer opportunities in the Bethlehem community.
What is the Community Service Office (CSO)?
This building houses the Center for Career and Professional Development.
What is Maginnes Hall (5th floor)?
This student leadership position offers a free on-campus room, a stipend, and the opportunity to create an inclusive residential community in their residence hall.
What is a Gryphon?
This 9-day summer international service-learning program immerses students in the culture of an island in the Caribbean.
What is SERVEAbroad Antigua?
This railroad tycoon and 2-term U.S. Congressman founded Lehigh University by donating $500,000 and 60 acres of land in 1865.
Who is Asa Packer?
Started in 1995, these week-long winter and spring service immersion trips are student-led and only cost $300 for the entire trip.
What are SERVE trips?
This online career platform allows students to access career resources, create a profile, search for internships, and connect with employers.
What is Handshake?
This volunteer leadership position offers students the opportunity to be part of a team of 80 student leaders who mentor a group of 20 first-year students as they transition to life at Lehigh in August and the Fall semester.
What is an Orientation Leader?
Since 2008, over 100 students have served in this leadership position at the United Nations in which they serve as the voice for a UN-recognized non-government organization (NGO).
What are United Nations Youth Representatives?
The first classes were held in this campus building on September 1, 1866.
What is Christmas-Saucon Hall?
First offered at Lehigh in May 2014, this six day experience challenges participants to explore identity development and inclusive leadership.
What is the Leadershape Institute?
This system allows students to browse the profiles of thousands of Lehigh alumni to network with a professional in a position, company, or industry of interest.
What is Lehigh Connects?
One of the requirements for this leadership position is the ability to walk backwards while sharing information about Lehigh and the campus.
What is Admissions Tour Guide?
This is the percentage of Lehigh students who participate in an international experience during their undergraduate studies.
What is 40%.
From 1871 to 1891, Lehigh charged students this amount for tuition.
What is zero dollars?
Several times a semester, Lehigh students volunteer an evening to prepare and serve meals to homeless men and veterans at this South Bethlehem organization.
What is Victory House?
This step by step program offered by CCPD helps students develop their talents into strengths.
What is StrengthsQuest?
These student leaders meet weekly to discuss important student issues, oversee student clubs, hear from senior administrators, and vote on funding (the President and VP also attend quarterly Board of Trustee Meetings!).
Who are Student Senators?
This is the name of the platform where you can search study abroad opportunities, watch the Getting Started videos, and create a study abroad application.
What is MyGlobalLehigh.
According to a popular theory, the inspiration for the adoption of brown and white as official school colors in 1876 was this article of clothing.
What is women's stockings?
Every year, about 150 Lehigh students volunteer as trained tutors at local Bethlehem elementary and middle schools as part of this national, federally funded program intended to increase literacy and math skills.
What are America Reads and America Counts?
This system allows students to practice their interview skills using a webcam and then get personalized feedback from a CCPD career coach.
What is Big Interview?
In addition to being the name of a physical space on campus, the executive board of this coalition of over 45 student clubs assists members with incorporating an international and cultural focus in their activities.
What is the Global Union?
This is the name of the community of past study abroad students who agreed to share their experiences with fellow students.
What is the Peer Contact Network?
Prior to 1991, fans of the winning team in the Lehigh-Lafayette game would celebrate by participating in this now-retired tradition.
What is toppling the goalpost?