The Wesley Center offers a number of programs for students wishing to explore vocation, spirituality, and service. Some are paid internships, some are service
learning opportunites, and others are lectures.
Hamline-Hancock Collaboration
Since 1991, when it became the first University-elementary partnership of its kind in the nation, the Hancock-Hamline Collaboration has been working to create an integrated campus where College Begins in Kindergarten. 97.5% of Hancock students want to go on to higher education, and Hamline students and staff immerse themselves in an urban learning environment that helps them to be active members of their community. Visit the Hamline-Hancock Collaboration website.
McVay Youth Partnership
The McVay Youth Partnership gives Hamline students an opportunity to mentor innercity middle school and high school students at an after school program. Visit the McVay Youth Partnership website for information on how to apply.
Service Learning Spring Break Trips
The Office of Service Learning and Volunteerism offers multiple service learning spring break trips each year. To learn more, visit the OSLV website.
Wesley Center Programs for Progressive Christian Thought
The Mahle Fund supports the efforts of Hamline University toward exploring and articulating contemporary forms of Christian theology and providing students opportunities to learn its relevance to personal, social, economic, and political life.
Mahle Scholars
The Mahle Scholars Program invites undergraduate students to explore the connections between the calling of vocation; the values of spirituality, service and social justice; and in particular—progressive Christian thought. The Mahle Scholars are students who meet weekly to discuss vocation and service in a progressive Christian context. The scholars work with the Mahle Scholar in Residence in the Spring Semester in addition to implementing a service project. This is a year long program.
For More Information about Progressive Christian Programs, see the Mahle Fund page.
Mahle Lecture in Progressive Christian Thought
The Mahle Lecture is an annual lecture given on the Hamline University campus by the Mahle Scholar in residence. The lecture focuses on aspects of practicing, studying or living the ideas of Progressive Christianity. Each lecture is free and open to the public.
Wesley Center Programs for Exploration of Vocation
Wesley Scholars
Wesley Scholars 2009-2010 will be focusing on living the ordinary young adult, college experience in an extraordinary way. Who am I? What are my goals? How do I fit my dreams into a reality? How can I focus on the Me right now and the Me that will be in the years to come? How do I live in the present, while all my decisions seem to be about my future? These questions, in addition to community building, courageous reflection, and a culminating project will be the building blocks to the 2009-2010 Wesley Scholars program. Sources used will be from Parker Palmer, Daniel Wallace (Big Fish), Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart), Terry Tempest Williams, Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), Etty Hilleseum (Letters from Westerbork), Toni Morrison, and Rumi.
Wesley Scholars is a student group that meets weekly to discuss issues of vocation and implement a service project. This is a year-long program.
Applications for the Wesley Scholars are now closed.
