The Office of Leadership and Service held a Volunteer Fair on the Keathley University Center Knoll on Tuesday as part of the Student Government Association's "Make A Difference Week."
"Many of the organizations expressed how pleased they were with the number of students that stopped by to talk with them, and the commitments they received from students to volunteer," said Heather Arrington, assistant director of the Office of Leadership and Services. "They all wanted to know when the next fair would be."
Informational booths were set up by 13 service-based campus organizations and community nonprofit organizations in the hopes of recruiting student volunteers.
The agencies were available to talk with students and worked to assist them in finding the right opportunity to make a difference.
"There are volunteer opportunities for everyone, including child-related causes, national organizations and an environmental groups," said Meagan Flippin, Office of Leadership and Service.
Heather Arrington, assistant director of the MTSU Office of Leadership and Services, said that an added bonus of volunteering with any of these organizations is that students are able to earn class credit for certain courses offered at MTSU with a Service Learning component.
"Since students tend to lack valuable work experience, employers give more weight to leadership experience and involvement in extra-curricular activities," said Wade Davis, trade compliance manager of Nissan North America, Inc.
The Volunteer Fair is usually held in September with a promise of a much larger turnout of organizations. However, the Office of Leadership and Services decided to hold a Volunteer Fair this week to allow the organizations an opportunity to recruit the help of students who may be staying in the area over summer.
The community non-profit organizations that attended were Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee, Discovery Center at Murfree Spring, Girls Scouts of Middle Tennessee, Greenhouse Ministries, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Primary Care & Hope, Sam Davis Home, Smyrna-LaVergne Food Bank, The Arts Center of Cannon County, The Domestic Violence Program and Youth Villages.
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