The Haas Center seeks to make the opportunity to serve available to all students regardless of financial condition, academic interest, or political persuasion. Through service involvement students develop a spirit of giving and sharing. They learn with, from and about people whose lives are different from their own. They expand their understanding of social problems and their ability to solve these problems. By encouraging student initiative and leadership the Center helps students gain knowledge and skills necessary for effective citizenship in a democratic, multicultural society.
Service combined with study adds value to each and transforms both.
The Haas Center works with faculty to build study-service connections and community research opportunities across the curriculum, which support students' academic interests and improve understanding, analysis, and resolution of social, economic, and technological problems facing society. This mission statement was developed in 1994 as a result of a strategic planning process.