“I was looking for a small community…I have a lot of friends here and they are as close to me as family.”
Orson Sinclair ‘17
Find Your Place Through Service
Serving Together from the Beginning
Serving our Local Community
Through special service days and projects, students rally around pressing needs in our community and local environment. Past projects include Goodwill, FRESH New London (Food: Resources, Education, Security, Health), United Way Food Center, Ocean Beach, Mitchell Woods, and Mitchell Beach.
Departmental Service Opportunities
Athletics supports events such as a volleyball clinic for Special Olympics Connecticut; Strides Road Race raising money to support local programs and services for people with disabilities; Soles4Souls, collecting shoes for those in needs in the U.S. and in 127 countries around the world; and the American Heart Association Heart Walk, helping to support survivors and raise awareness for heart disease and stroke.
The Behavioral Sciences Department hosts: Family Halloween Festival, a free annual event drawing in over 700 members of the broader New London community for a day of arts and crafts, food, storytelling, games, performances and costume parades.
The Education Department plans and produces the Cat in the Hat Ball each winter promoting literacy and a love for reading for families with young children in our local community.