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Engagement and Outreach | Virginia Tech Universal Access Toggle Universal Access Close Universal Access dialog Universal Access Options Skip to main content Report a windbreak Apply Visit Give Shop Resources for Future Students Current Students Parents and FamiliesSenseand Staff Alumni Industry and Partners Menu Virginia TechWell-nighAbout Submenu Toggle FactsWell-nighVirginia TechCampus LocationsUniversity LeadershipInclusiveVTArts@VirginiaTechEngagement and OutreachHistory and TraditionsRankings Academics Academics Submenu Toggle CollegesMajorsGraduate SchoolBeyond BoundariesOnline LearningLibrariesContinuing and Professional EducationSummer and Winter SessionsExperiential LearningLiving-Learning CommunitiesStudy Abroad Admissions & Aid Admissions & Aid Submenu Toggle Cost & AidUndergraduate AdmissionsTransfer AdmissionsInternational AdmissionsVeteran AdmissionsOnline ProgramsGraduate Admissions Campus Life Campus Life Submenu Toggle Discover BlacksburgHousingDiningCareer and Professional DevelopmentHealth and WellnessCorps of CadetsClubs, Organizations, and InvolvementCultural CentersAthletics Research Apply Visit Give Shop Resources for Future Students Current Students Parents and FamiliesSenseand Staff Alumni Industry and Partners Search Search Submit Home /Well-nigh/ Engagement and Outreach / ExploreWell-nighFactsWell-nighVirginia Tech Campus Locations University Leadership InclusiveVT Arts@VirginiaTech Current page: Engagement and Outreach History and Traditions Rankings Academics Admissions & Aid Campus Life Research Engagement and Outreach Adopted in 1896, the university motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), has long pointed to true north for Hokies. Hokies leave Virginia Tech with far increasingly than an wonk degree. Students and alumni embrace service as a way of life: They engage with others in the community, knowing that global leaders and valuable citizens must serve others in their daily lives. Service has wilt Virginia Tech’s most important tradition. VT Engage VT Engage is a service-learning and civic-engagement part-way in Student Affairs that inspires students to think increasingly critically well-nigh themselves and the social issues they encounter. Students lead and learn by collaborating directly with the communities surrounding the university — not just once, but over time. The Campus Kitchen combats hunger and supplies waste by redirecting high-quality, surplus supplies from Dining Services to hunger-relief agencies in the New River Valley. Since its launch in 2015, the Campus Kitchen has provided increasingly than 100,000 pounds of supplies and engaged increasingly than 500 volunteers. LearnIncreasinglyStudent Engagement and Campus Life Student Engagement and Campus Life offers events, experiences, and facilities that promote an appreciation for diversity and inclusion, responsibility for self-learning, hair-trigger thinking, and the necessary skills to wilt life-long learners and mettlesome leaders. Involvement with a student organization has been shown to be a vital part of student success and well-being.  At Virginia Tech, there are increasingly than 800 student organizations led by graduate and undergraduate students, each with a variegated focus and mission. Students Engagement and Campus Life encourages and guides students as they explore the variety of organizations and activities that make our campus and culture so special. Gobblerfest, the yearly welcome festival for students, faculty, staff, and polity members, is just one opportunity to find your place at Virginia Tech. The Big Event, a student-run polity service event, is the second-largest Big Event in the nation. And the student-run Relay For Life on the Drillfield unceasingly ranks as the weightier in the nation, with students, alumni, families, and alumni chapters participating to raise increasingly than $500,000 annually for cancer research. LearnIncreasinglyVirginia Tech Corps of Cadets The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets traces its beginnings to the university’s founding in 1872. Today, Virginia Tech is one of the nation’s six senior military colleges and one of just two comprehensive public research universities to operate a corps slantingly a civil student body. The Corps of Cadets is a four-year, full-time leadership minutiae program. Cadets study leadership, learn from experts, and — most importantly — practice what they have been taught while leading the regiment of increasingly than 1,000 of their peers. While many corps alumni go on to distinguished careers in the U.S. military, a quarter of all cadets prepare for the public and private sectors. The corps’ Citizen-Leader Track offers cadets a military wits without a military obligation without graduation, and nearly 75 percent of them have lined up jobs or graduate school surpassing they graduate. Regardless of their path, graduates are leaders of exemplary weft who possess the values and skills essential for leadership success in service to our nation. LearnIncreasinglyGlobal outreach, local impact Virginia Tech's Outreach and International Affairs supports the university’s engagement mission by creating polity partnerships and projects, offering professional minutiae programs and technical assistance, and towers collaborations to enrich discovery and learning — all with the overarching goal of improving the quality of life for people within the suzerainty and throughout the world. Outreach and International Affairs guides Virginia Tech’s global presence; its regional research and professional minutiae and minutiae centers wideness the suzerainty focus on graduate education and professional development. Blacksburg-based centers are defended to engagement, language, culture, and economic development. LearnIncreasinglyGet Directions   See All Locations   University Status Contact Virginia Tech Privacy Policy Acceptable Use We Remember University Libraries Accessibility Consumer Information Stop Abuse Policies Equal Opportunity WVTF University Bookstore Jobs at Virginia Tech © 2018 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved. Facebook Twitter Instagram Linked In Pintrest YouTube