Opportunities
Civic Engagement
We encourage all students to engage with their communities and find ways to serve, as this is a vital aspect of any profession. Participating in civil engagement opportunities like these grows students' leadership potential and sense of responsibility for others.
Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement
To search for opportunities in the local community, please get engaged with the CLCE on campus. They offer:
- Workshops, events, and retreats
- Trips, like Bulls Service Breaks
- Service projects and service days, like Stampede of Service
Featured LOCAL Opportunities
Legislative Internship Program (LIP)
LIP students work nine hours per week in the offices of state and local legislators
or nonprofit, think-tank, or policy agencies. These groups are actively involved in
Tampa Bay's economic development, transportation, environmental protection, education,
health, social welfare, or public finance.
The USF Health BRIDGE Clinic is a student-run free clinic that serves uninsured adults
from underserved communities. Their goal is to create a health facility where patients
are treated compassionately and cared for through the collaboration of medicine, social
work, physical therapy, pharmacy, and public health providers.
When a child is in the dependency court system due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment,
the judge may appointment the Guardian Ad Litem Office to represent the child's interest.
The child's GAL team may include a volunteer. Volunteers are responsible for gathering
facts surrounding a child鈥檚 case, reviewing reports, finding out the child鈥檚 wants
and desires, and providing the court with an unbiased recommendation on what is required
to serve the child鈥檚 best interests.
Project Downtown's mission is to spread awareness about homelessness and distribute
essentials to unhoused people in downtown Tampa.
UN Millennium Fellowship
The United Nations Millennium Fellowship is an international, semester-long leadership
program designed for undergraduates interested in social impact careers. University
cohorts - consisting of 8 to 20 students - apply by proposing a community service
project that advances one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The 3D HAB-Lab aims to mentor, teach, and engage USF students in fabrication techniques
(3D printing, laser cutting, etc.) employed for restorative habitat design. Students
align interests in engineering, design, art, and ecology to create working solutions
for habitat loss locally and globally.
USF Climate Teach-In
A teach-in is an informal educational event designed to raise awareness or inspire
action on a specific issue or cause. Unlike traditional lectures, teach-ins are interactive
and community-oriented, encouraging open discussion and participation. Each spring,
USF hosts a campus-wide Climate Teach-In led by a student executive board.