In recognition of April being National Volunteer Month, RSU’s President’s Leadership Class volunteers will be serving their neighbors during the month of April at several events designed to give back to the community.
Foremost among the group’s numerous civic-minded projects is the first annual PLC Cares Day, scheduled for Saturday, April 13.
“Three of the tenets of the program are ‘leadership, service, and community’, and PLC Cares Day is a means by which our students honor all of these,” said RSU PLC Program Director Christi Mackey. “On PLC Cares Day, fifty students will break into small groups to help pre-designated organizations and agencies with various projects.”
In addition to PLC Cares Day, over the course of the month, PLC members will be supporting Rogers County Adult Day Care by participating in the Donkey Basketball fundraiser, teaming up with Safenet Services for the “Walk a Mile in Their Shoes” event to raise awareness and funds for those impacted by sexual violence, creating a visual display in front of the Children’s Advocacy Center to illustrate the number of substantiated abuse and neglect cases in Rogers and nearby counties, and more.
“The students are very excited about the impact they’re going to be making at PLC Cares Day,” Mackey said. “Like Desmund Tutu said, ‘Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world’, and that’s what our students will be doing.”
Rogers State University’s President’s Leadership Class is a four-year scholarship program designed to foster and develop students’ leadership skills and to enhance their overall academic experience, with scholarships available for those within the program.
For more information about President’s Leadership Class or PLC Cares Day, contact Christi Mackey at [email protected] or visit www.rsu.edu/plc.