Purpose:  Students who have engaged with faculty members and other students in significant, meaningful community service, and who have been guided to reflect on the power and purpose of these experiences, graduate from the University as citizens who are not resigned to accepting the community as it is but have a vision for how they can help make the community better.

 

 

 

 

Students who complete the Transformational Experience will be expected to give a presentation at the Day of Transformation.  To register for the day of transformation click on the following link: Registration Form

 

 

 

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Presentation Requirments and Hints will help give students an idea of what is expected from this presentation.

 

Student reflection of the WTE

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alisha Adams, human services alumna, developed a community food pantry while a student at Washburn, which is now called the East Topeka Hunger Project.

 

“ Sometimes service makes me feel guilty or sad about my life and community. It can be depressing to realize how much poverty and evil exists in the area. I think I’ve enjoyed all of the dissonance, thinking that bad things don’t really happen to good people or that really bad things don’t happen in my area. On the reverse, these awakening experiences have strengthened my desire to fight for social justice and work as an advocate for justice and peace."

 

 

 

 

 

WTE Reflection Activities 

 

Reflection #1 Lives of Commitment #1

 

Reflection #2 What is Community

 

Reflection #3 Earliest Impressions

 

Reflection #4 Race

 

Reflection #5  Lives of Commitment #2