Real World Immersion
The Clay Institute at Saint Louis University offers opportunities for SLU students to immerse themselves in off-campus experiences pertaining to social justice and advocacy.
Social Action Trips
The Social Action Program offers justice-based experiential learning and advocacy. During the spring semester, teams of 10-12 engage in weekly education and community-building activities with local partners. Students attend a spring break trip and follow up with action planning meetings.
Trips will begin to rotate in 2026, while both will run in 2025. We go to the US-Mexico border with an immigration focus and New Orleans with an LGBTQIA+ focus.
Students must be available to attend already-set pre- and post-trip meetings. The cost is $200-250 per person. Applications are due Nov. 1, 2024 with deposits due Nov. 17. Undergraduate students are prioritized.
Full completion of the program and trip counts for Reflection in Action Credit.