Alternative Service Experience

THANK YOU for a successful 2012-2013 ASE season!

We hosted 31 programs during fall, winter, spring and for the first time this year - MAY!

ASU students were able to serve from Williamson, WV to Huanuco, Peru and learn about communities across the globe.

Thank you to everyone for making this a successful year and we hope to see you again next year!

CONGRATULATIONS to our ASE Award Winners!

Participant of the Year: Kelsey Trevethan

U.S. Based Peer Leader of the Year: Shady Kimzey

International Peer Leader of the Year: Libba Moore

U.S. Based Learning Partner of the Year: Jordan Luzader

International Leader Partner of the Year: Misty Mayfield

CALLING ALL STUDENT LEADERS!

Interested in serving as a U.S Based Peer Leader during ASE: Spring 2014?

Come by the ACT Outreach Office to pick up your Peer Leader Application starting in August.

See the world with new eyes. Serve the world with your hands.

Are you taking your education beyond the walls of the classroom? Consider an Alternative Service Experience and explore a variety of social issues while working shoulder to shoulder with communities across the globe. Whether a domestic program on the gulf coast or an international program south of the equator, use your time during fall, winter and spring break to create deeper connections between your classroom work and the communities of the world.

Each program's leadership team is comprised of two Peer Leaders (undergraduate students) and one Learning Partner (faculty/staff member). Peer Leaders complete extensive training and work with the Learning Partners to organize meaningful out-of-the-classroom learning experiences for their participants. While program costs and sign-up processes vary (see the Lottery Page for more information), each provides the opportunitiy for a life-changing and one-of-a-kind learning and service experience.

As of 2011 all of our Alternative Service Experience programs are CARBON NEUTRAL!

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again...

~Mahatma Gandhi

Want to Know More?

ASU is a proud member of Break Away, the Alternative Break Connection, Inc., a non-profit organization that supports the development of quality alternative break programs.

*Appalachian State University reserves the right to cancel or alter the program format or to change costs in case of conditions beyond the University’s control.

*All students participating in iASE must read the Appalachian Overseas Education Program Handbook (pdf)