Connecting Graduates with the Community

The University, in partnership with other area colleges, is linking young professionals with Rochester youth-service agencies through a new fellowship program.

Rochester Youth Year fellowships give new alumni a year of intensive community service while keeping their talent in support of area youth.

"We were really trying to develop a new kind of collaboration among area colleges drawing on our various strengths as well as focusing on ways for students to deliver their talents to Rochester youth," says Jody Asbury, dean of students.

Participants are full-time staff members at their agencies for the year, receive additional training, and assist in a new University leadership seminar that features local and national figures discussing their views and experiences on leadership and civic engagement.

Funding has been provided by the Rochester Area Community Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, a University alumnus, and SUNY Geneseo.