Our Spirit of Service is Strong

SLU Earns Top Rank Among Peace Corps Volunteering Schools

“The Peace Corps had always been something I knew about,” says Mckenzie Goodwin ’16, who returned in September 2018 after 27 months working on public health initiatives as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana. But it was a St. Lawrence career fair that sealed the deal in her senior year.

In many ways, St. Lawrence retains the spirit of its Universalist roots.

The University remains a community where, as the late professor of history Albert B. Corey wrote a century after its founding, “The intellectual atmosphere made possible freedom of thought and freedom of teaching.”

Preparing for a Life in Service

Garnet Williams ’19, a history and geology double major with an African studies minor, explains that he has always been interested in history; however, geology came as a surprise.