Alumni

Alumni Service Corps

The ASC is a ten-month program for young Gonzaga graduates who are dedicated to service and community life.
Participants live together in housing that the school provides and receive a monthly living stipend while they work to serve Gonzaga’s greatest need at any moment—as substitute teachers, coaches, club moderators, and various other roles. ASC members also assist with Campus Ministry, the Library, the Office of Student Services, and other departments around the school. 

ASC participants have a unique opportunity to serve Gonzaga, while gaining valuable work experience and discerning a career path. The program begins with an orientation and retreat in mid-August and ends the following June. In addition to work at the school, ASC participants also take part in a community and spirituality program that is grounded in the same values and traditions of their Jesuit education at Gonzaga.

Coming Back to Give Back

Gonzaga’s Alumni Service Corps is grounded in four values: service, community, spirituality, and simple living. Click on the headings below to learn more about each.

List of 4 items.

  • Service

    Alumni Service Corps members will be available to serve the Gonzaga community in a variety of ways including, but not limited to:
    • proctoring classes 
    • supporting Campus Ministry and Library programming 
    • participating weekly in the Gonzaga Kitchen Project
    • responding to the daily needs of the school day

  • Community

    Alumni Service Corps members will live the value of community by:
    • living with other ASC members in a shared house/apartment
    • participating in the professional and community-building activities designed by Gonzaga
    • creating and participating in one community activity each month.
    • visiting the Jesuit community for dinner on a regular basis

  • Spirituality

    Alumni Service Corps members will strive to develop and nourish their spirituality by:
    • creating and participating in one spiritual-based activity each month with their community
    • writing quarterly reflections on their experience and discussing them with the director
    • taking advantage of masses, prayer services, and spiritual direction
    • committing to weekly, personal prayer

  • Simple Living

    Alumni Service Corps members will respond to the expectation to live simply by:
    • living within the budget created by the program
    • sharing resources in the community house
    • reflecting on their own lifestyle in comparison to the lives of those who are poor and marginalized.
If you are interested in learning more about Gonzaga's Alumni Service Corps program, including our application process and timeline, please contact Ms. Danielle Flood, Associate Director of Campus Ministry for Service, at dflood@gonzaga.org. To apply for the 2023-2024 program, please click the button below.

  • Andrew Wood '12

    "Switching between teaching and covering classes, helping in the library or in Campus Ministry, and preparing for graduate school auditions really improved my organizational and time management skills. I’m grateful for those lessons in my current professional life!"

  • Headmaster Mr. Tom Every

    “The alumni who come back and volunteer in the ASC bring many gifts to Gonzaga. Chief among those gifts is the ability to show our students what a Gonzaga man looks like four years from graduation. They are role models for our boys in ways that we ‘more experienced’ faculty simply cannot be.”

  • Mike Hanagan '08

    "One unique piece of the ASC program is transitioning back to Gonzaga as an adult. Once you get past the initial shock of calling your former teachers by their first names, it is amazing how quickly former mentors of yours can become current mentors and friends. Spending a year setting next to Bill Wilson and Terry Kernan on the bench coaching Freshman Basketball provided a lifetime of laughs and wisdom."
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