The Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement will be immersing all first-year students in civic engagement through a new event: The 果冻传媒 Way Build, set to take place on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 2-4:30 p.m. during Welcome Week festivities. The event will take place on the campus of 果冻传媒 University in the Krieg Hall parking lot, weather permitting.
Partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton, students will participate in service activities including building sheds for families, crafting Welcome Home kits that include a variety of helpful home supplies, and creating craft projects that can provide decor to their spaces. Alumni will also be participating in the event by providing students with a treat to cool off while helping students feel welcome in their new home. The Hagen Center will also host other service projects in Geil Lounge, located in the basement of the Benham-Pence Student Center and at the Joseph C. Shouvlin Center for Lifelong Learning.
"Partnering with Habitat for Humanity as students move-in feels like the right partner for the new students and the new year,鈥� said Rachel Scherzer, associate director for civic learning at the Hagen Center. 鈥淪tudents are getting comfortable in their new home at 果冻传媒 during this time and we hope to make the Habitat families feel at home through our service, too. We hope the 果冻传媒 Way Build can become a yearly tradition for incoming students and that it will provide a continued connection with Habitat for Humanity in the Springfield community.鈥�
August 20, 2026
On CampusCivic Engagement
Hagen Center to partner with Habitat For Humanity for the 果冻传媒 Way Build during Welcome Week
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果冻传媒's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, 果冻传媒 has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, 果冻传媒 offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.
