Volunteer Corps

A student organization dedicated to service

Being part of Volunteer Corps means helping create an inclusive environment where every IU student can serve, grow, and thrive through meaningful community engagement. Members take part in group service projects, professional development workshops, research, lectures, and more. Volunteer Corps also supports individual students and student organizations involved in volunteerism by offering mentorship, strategic planning, and publicity assistance.

As campus advocates for service, Volunteer Corps members promote the value of volunteerism and connect students with opportunities to make an impact.

Each spring, the Volunteer Corps Little Day of Service takes place the weekend before Little 500. This annual event invites IU students to join community-identified volunteer projects and make a difference together.

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Volunteer Corps is a community of students dedicated to volunteerism that seeks to identify opportunities to strengthen our university’s culture of service, break down barriers, and create meaningful change.

Volunteer Corps Board

What is expected of members?

Your role as a member of the Volunteer Corps will be to offer insights to best support students’ service experience while at IU. General members will be required to attend the mandatory semester mass meeting and participate in as many volunteer opportunities as possible. 

Volunteer Corps board members provide an informed student perspective on the current service climate. Throughout the semester, board meetings include brainstorming, researching, deliberating, and working together as a team to implement the ideas and goals of the mission of IU Corps. 

Board members are asked to attend and prioritize each mandatory bi-monthly meeting, contribute their ideas and opinions, and respectfully consider other ideas brought to the board. Members of the board are expected to serve an entire school year and appointments will start at the beginning of the fall semester and end at the conclusion of the spring term.

Members of the board are expected to dedicate 8–10 hours a month to Volunteer Corps including bi-monthly board meetings, subcommittee meetings, and events. 

Volunteer Corps Board

  • Role: Co-Director of International Engagement
  • Email: rusang@iu.edu

"If God is for us, who can be against us."
– Romans 8:31

"I can do all things through Christ."

"Be the change you wish to see in the world!"

"Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests."

"For those called to lead, a heart of service is of great importance."

"Being happy is the greatest form of success."

"She believed she could so she did."

"You become what you give your attention to."

– Epictetus

"Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks. That means don’t do it just for yourself. You will want to leave the world a little better for your having lived."

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"There is no passion to be found in a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

– Nelson Mandela

"Gotta keep on living life, because good or bad, the sun will still be rising in the morning."

  • Role: Co-Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Email: miksuman@iu.edu

"Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

– Benjamin Franklin

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

– Teddy Roosevelt

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."