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"To Mexico, with Love" (https://mexico.uc.iupui.edu/) is a cultural immersion and service-learning program offered at Indiana University-Purdue University. TMWL participants study abroad in Cuernavaca, Mexico, at the school of IDEAL (http://www.ideal-school.com/), for one month and they also volunteer at designated community sites.

For the fourth year in a row, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA is serving with Touch the World Ministries, based out of Allendale, NJ to bring a team of students to Juarez, Mexico as an alternative spring break trip. We will continue on the final stages of construction on a school that was begun in 2005. Over 100 Mexican children are being sponsored by families in the US for $30 a month, an unthinkable price for such a poverty-stricken community. This community of Felipe Angeles used to be a garbage dump, and the families there have built their homes out of whatever they could find.

Project Now is a community outreach program funded by the Introspective Psychoanalytic Services, a club at John Marshall High School, Los Angeles, CA. Project Now was started by the IPS committee to primarily educate elementary school and middle school students about the importance of self-esteem, optimism, self-motivation, education and social perspectives (gangs, dropping out of school, violence, drug abuse etc.).

Today men are facing a crisis. Thirty years ago, men represented close to 60 percent of those enrolled in colleges and universities. In 2002, according to the most recent year for which figures are available, the percentage of male undergraduates on the nation’s campuses stood at 43 percent. That figure constitutes the lowest percentage for males since the middle of the 19th century. Because there are less positive male role models in the lives of boys and young men, males have gravitated away from the college path and, for some, towards negative paths.