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acaulay Honors College strongly believes its University Scholars should give back to the community, city, and state which help to fund the generous University Scholarship and Macaulay integrated curriculum. In addition, students find that community service and civic engagement projects, often student-run and staffed, provide them with invaluable learning experiences and tremendous opportunities for leadership, personal growth, and satisfaction.
Recent service projects include:
- In 2007, a group of Macaulay students spent their spring break in New Orleans, to help rebuilding efforts there. They assisted in the construction of Musicians’ Village, building a group of modest wood-frame buildings to house performers in the Ninth Ward. They also helped at an animal shelter in Metarie and performed clean up and construction at a house and school in St. Bernard Parish.
- Accompanied by Macaulay staff members, another group traveled to Chimaltenango, Guatemala in summer 2007 to help Habitat for Humanity build houses with local residents.
Many University Scholars discover community service opportunities through their communities, through campus organizations such as the Golden Key Honors Society, or through other student activities and organizations. In conjunction with its University Scholars Council, Macaulay also organizes cross-campus community service opportunities with a variety of organizations, including New York Cares (park and public-school cleanups), CUNY's Restart Central (advising service for small businesses adversely affected by the events of 9/11), and MOUSE (tech support service for New York public schools).
University Scholars founded CUNY's first chapter of Project Sunshine (an organization that helps care for seriously ill children in area hospitals) in partnership with Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.