Student Leader Positions Available!

Are interested in getting more involved with the Bennion Center? Do you need some leadership experience? 

Bennion Center Student Board, 2014-15

We still have several student leader positions open for this 2014-2015 school year! The Bennion Center would be nothing without service-minded, engaged students like you driving our mission forward. One of the things that sets the BC apart from other community service centers on campuses across the nation is the fact that we are a student-run organization. We are extremely lucky to have the talented, diverse, supportive staff as our scaffolding in the BC, but the bulk of leadership is through students. So, if you want a bit more of your college experience, apply for one of these positions today!

Listed below are the positions we still are looking to fill and a brief description of what the position entails. Feel free to hop over to our website, www.bennioncenter.org for more information, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter, or comment hear, and we'll get you the information you need! 

Education and Advocacy:

Bud Bailey Apartment Community Tutoring (Program Director position) 

• Recruit students to participate in this program
• Act as the leader to assist in organizing tutoring activities
• Attend weekly tutoring sessions
• Assist in evaluating the efficacy of the program and track participation
• Coordinate with Services Coordinator to ensure appropriate and successful engagement with participant

SOARE  (Program Director position)

• Meet with Mountain View teachers to assess needs and plan
• Use or make contacts on campus willing to host field trips
• Coordinate hosts and Mountain View
• Report success to Bennion Center
• Manage volunteers
• Act as chaperone on field trips

Health and Ability: 

Meals on Wheels (Program Director position)

• Coordinate and schedule volunteers to deliver meals.
• Ensure that meals are delivered in a timely manner.
• Plan for back-up volunteers in the event that a volunteer cannot make it to his/her assigned day.
• Meals will be delivered to the Bennion Center by 10:00am Monday-Friday. Volunteers have until 2:00pm to deliver 8-10 meals to homes located near the University of Utah Campus. The Student Program Director is expected to serve as a volunteer within the program.

VA Nursing Home (Program Director position)

• Volunteer at least once a week for two hours.
• Schedule volunteers to fill time slots (at least 2 hours/day).
• Recruit/maintain an email list of all volunteering UofU (BC) students.
• Plan at least one volunteer project for the Activities Department.
• Act in a professional and respectful manner.

Rudi Zurbuchen Spotlight

BENNION CENTER 2013-2014 SPOTLIGHT

Rudi Zurbuchen: Hospice Care Program Director

                                                           

What is the best advice you have ever received?

A smile and positive attitude can make any experience pleasant and fun. Happiness and positive attitudes are contagious. You are in charge of how you experience a life event.

If your life had a theme song, what would it be?

The Best Day-Taylor Swift

Do you have a recurring dream? If so, what is it?

Traveling the world with a small suitcase and living with locals.

What would you do with the money if you won the lottery?

I would use the necessary money to get back to Italy. The remaining I would give to the study abroad office to give out as scholarships.

What are the 5 things you cannot live without?

Toothpaste, my violin, frozen yogurt, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows,  and chap-stick.

What would your perfect date consist of?

Hiking to a waterfall, making pasta together, going to get frozen yogurt, and sitting in a hot tub under the stars with a root-beer float.  

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Hopefully in medical school with a small dog.

Andrew Reeve Spotlight

BENNION CENTER 2013-2014 SPOTLIGHT

Andrew Reeve: VA Nursing Home

                      

                            

What is the best advice you have ever received?

The best advice that I have ever received is to follow your dreams. Life is full of ups and downs, but in the end if you are following your dreams and doing what is best for you, you will be content.

If your life had a theme song, what would it be?

See of Air- Portugal. The man.

Where is the furthest you have traveled?

Patagonia, Southern Argentina

What has been the happiest moment of your life so far?

I am the happiest when I am traveling and meeting new people and discovering new cultures and ways of life. I am always the happiest outside of the country, living in distant places.

What would your perfect date consist of?

My perfect date would consist of a day skiing the back country or a nice climb to the peak of a mountain and a picnic.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

I see myself traveling the world and following my dreams in 5 years. I want to see more and more of this beautiful planet and help out those who are in need. Hopefully I will be in a job where I can accomplish both of those goals - living somewhere in a far distant place learning everything I can about the people and cultures I encounter.