Suf Patrons: supporting international engagement

Your contribution will support some of the following initiatives:

Storytelling gives SUF students the opportunity to experience something unique—to fully engage with the Italian culture through interaction with children in area schools, by reading American children’s books to Italian elementary school children during their English classes.

Seeds of Legality gives students the opportunity to volunteer their time and labor working on Sicilian farmland that has been confiscated from the Mafia in recent years. It is a chance for students to experience the challenges of contemporary Italy while making an important civic and social statement in favor of freedom and legality.

Soup Kitchen is a new volunteer project in which students can experience a reality different from the stereotypical view of Italian society. Volunteers help serve meals to the homeless and people in need, bus tables, and clean the dining rooms, while helping to provide a welcoming and supportive setting.

The Villa Rossa Series: Intercultural Perspectives on Italy and Europe Began in fall 2006, this book series has already seen the publication of three books, with the fourth and fifth volumes underway. The series highlights the artistic achievements and intellectual discoveries of the SUF faculty and professional staff, whose work explores the experience and historical dimensions of cultural interchange.

Community Lecture Series A series of lectures by renown experts in various fields, open to the public.