Civic-minded college students seek out alternative spring break program in Ferguson, Missouri

This April, a small group of about two hundred college students from around the country met in Ferguson, Missouri to participate in an alternative spring break program. The program, which ran in single week increments spanning five weeks, connected university students with local residents and activists who together helped clean up the city, run food drives, and register voters. The project offered college students from around the U.S. a chance to dialogue intimately with community members and to address the