Learn & Serve Niagara/NUCAP

    Niagara University has been involved in community service projects for more than forty years.  In 1994, Niagara University was one of 64 institutions of higher education to receive a grant from The Corporation of National Service.   With this grant, Niagara was able to move forward in establishing community partnerships and to develop the service-learning program.  Students in more than forty different courses are involved in course-related service projects.  Service learning is a method through which citizenship, academic subjects, skills and values are taught.

    The Niagara University Community Action Program (NUCAP) was founded in 1965 when a group of students decided that helping others was a necessity.  NUCAP is widely known for holding one-day activities on and off campus to help others in our community.  Throughout the school year, children from Niagara Falls visit campus and participate in various events, including roller-skating and ice skating parties.   Developmentally challenged people are also brought on to campus for dinner and movie nights.  Students also visit nursing homes throughout the year to play BINGO and interact socially with the residents.

    If you would like to get involved in any service learning or volunteer projects, stop by the Learn & Serve/NUCAP office in Varsity Village House #1, or call 286-8750.

Learn & Serve Director:  Marilynn Fleckenstein

NUCAP Coordinator: Fran Boltz