Willger Named Minnesota Campus Compact Fellow
Amanda Willger, a student at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC), has been named a Minnesota Campus Compact (MCC) Student Fellow for 2002-03. She is a first-year business management and marketing major. Her parents are Paul and Catherine Willger of Rice Lake, Wisconsin.
Willger will serve as one of a select group of 20 such fellows chosen by MCC from student applicants from across the state. The program is linked to the National Student Civic Engagement Campaign. Both the Fellows program and the larger campaign exist to support and promote students as powerful citizen leaders. Fellows will network with their peers, apply and further develop their skills, organize civic dialogues to address critical public issues, and mobilize students in this effort.
Willger has a number of volunteer experiences on her résumé, including work with the Special Olympics, Adopt-a-Grandparent, Habitat for Humanity, America Reads, and 4-H Helpers, among others. She credits her fifth grade teacher for sparking an interest in her first service project, an adopt-a-family Christmas shopping program. She is also active in UMC's VolunTEAM.
“I would like to see more involvement in the community and on campus from parents, students, and teachers. It’s really easy to sit back and watch other people do things and then criticize their work, but it’s more rewarding to get involved and change things for the positive,” says Willger. “There are more students who are more than willing to help out in the community in any way. You feel great when you have helped someone out or do something for the community.”
Posted 10/22/2002
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