Get Involved

Want to be involved with Alternative Breaks?

You’ve come to the right place! Read below on ways you can become involved!

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Library Walk Information Tabling from 10am – 3pm:

Week 1:
Friday, September 30th

Week 2:
Wednesday, October 5th
Thursday, October 6th

Week 3:
Monday, October 10th
Thursday, October 13th
Friday, October 14th

Week 4:
Monday, October 17th

Information Session (30 minute intervals):

Week 3:
Monday, October 10th from 10am – 7pm in Red Shoe Room
Wednesday, October 12th from 10am – 1pm in Thurgood Marshall Room
Friday, October 14th from 5:00pm – 10:00pm in Center Hall 206

Week 4:
Tuesday: October 18: Center 207
8:00pm, 8:30pm, 9:00pm, 9:30pm, 10:00pm, 10:30pm

Wednesday, October 19: Village West, Conference Room 2:
3:00pm, 3:30pm, 4:00pm, 4:30pm

Wednesday, October 19: Center 206
8:00pm, 8:30pm, 9:00pm, 9:30pm, 10:00pm, 10:30pm

Thursday, October 20: Center 203
9:00pm, 9:30pm, 10:00pm, 10:30pm

Friday, October 21:
PC West Earl Warren College Room: 10:00am, 10:30am, 11:00am, 11:30am, 12:00pm, 12:30pm
PC West Eleanor Roosevelt College Room: 1:00pm, 1:30pm, 2:00pm, 2:30pm, 3:00pm, 3:30pm, 4:00pm, 4:30pm
PC West Earl Warren College Room: 5:00pm = MIXER!

Alternative Breaks Mixer:

Week 4, Friday, October 21st from 5:00pm – 9:00pm in the Earl Warren College Room (3rd Floor Price Center West)

Applications are out! Visit the Apply! page to download the application.

Undergraduate Participant
Undergraduate Participant recruitment starts ever Fall Quarter (September through October).We hold mandatory informational sessions and occasional Library Walk and organization fair information tables. You MUST attend at least one Fall Quarter Informational Session to be able to apply. 

Alumni/Graduate Student Participants
Alumni positions are available on each trip (1 on each). Community advisors can be anyone that works at UC San Diego, or someone who plays an active role in the community. An Alumni participant is someone who has graduated from UC San Diego or is a current Graduate student. Alumni Participants provide outside experience and knowledge, networks, and skills that can enhance and benefit the leadership of each Alternative Break team. Plus, they make GREAT participants to each team! Applications are released at the same time as Undergraduate Members.

Community Advisors
Community and Alumni positions are available on each trip (1 of each). Community advisors can be anyone that works at UC San Diego, or someone who plays an active role in the community. Community advisors and Alumni members provide outside experience and knowledge, networks, and skills that can enhance and benefit the leadership of each Alternative Break team. Plus, they make GREAT participants to each team! Applications are released closer to the end of Summer. 

Site Leaders

Two Site Leaders work cooperatively to lead each trip and are the ones who will be facilitating the group process throughout the academic school year.

Chairs

Our Executive Board consists of the following positions: Orientation/Reorientation chair, Fundraising/Finance Chair (positions available), Media/Marketing (positions available), Internal Relations chair and External Relations chair. The executive board is committed upholding the vision and mission of Alternative Breaks @ UCSD by assisting with organization operations and coordinating events. If you are interested in an executive board position, please email abatucsd@gmail.com if you are interested. Interviews will be conducted before September 25, 2010.

Coordinators
Recruitment for Coordinators starts immediately at the end of our Spring Break trips. Recruitment begins Spring Quarter and is completed before Site Leader recruitment and interviews begins in April. Come back here immediately after Spring Break to find applications. Typically, coordinators are AB@UCSD participants who have previously been on a trip. Coordinators work together on most projects to ensure proper efficiency of the program as a whole.

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Applications
You can make your way to the Apply! page to download a copy of an application!

Financial Policy
You must pay a deposit for your trip by a certain due date specified for your Alternative Break trip. Participants are expected to cover costs/deposits for plane tickets soon after acceptance. Site Leaders will have this information. In addition, we require a $50 deposit that is used towards holding a spot for yourself on a trip ($50 is used towards funding t-shirts, retreats, etc.).