Vermont Business Magazine This Saturday more than 300 first-year University of Vermont students led by 80 upper class peer leaders will begin their UVM experience as part of TREK, a unique first-year enrichment program sponsored by the Department of Student Life. For 37 years, UVM’s TREK program has sent new students across Vermont to explore the wilderness, develop leadership skills, and work on community service projects. TREK is one of the biggest and most diverse new-student, collegiate, community building programs in the region.
The TREK programs offer first-year students diverse experiences and self-directed opportunities to learn about themselves, future classmates and student life at UVM. Working in small, cooperative groups with 2 upper class leaders, TREK gives students with similar co-curricular interest an opportunity to develop teamwork skills, meet new friends, build community and make transition to life at UVM.
This year TREK features trips in the areas of community service, leadership development and wilderness exploration (hiking, biking, canoeing, climbing, sea kayaking and whitewater kayaking). This year will also be the launch of an ALANA TREK team for students of color interested in the outdoors.
TREK program “re-entry” is scheduled for 4pm on Thursday, August 25th on the Green Roof of the Dudley Davis Student Center, the only student union in the country to receive LEED certification at the Gold Level.
Source: UVM 8.17.2016