on campus
AT A G L A N C E
Marquette students WHO THEY ARE
18%
85%
community service
88%
student organization member
FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS
Sandwich ministry Twenty-five years ago, a group of students attended the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness in Boston. They brought back more than notes.
They brought a determina-
tion to replicate what they saw
there — students driving
64% FROM OUT OF STATE
WHAT MATTERS TO THEM
96%
Marquette students are involved: in the community, in student organizations and internships.
FULL-TIME STUDENTS
around city streets delivering
food, blankets, hats and gloves to the
homeless. Soon, Midnight Run at Marquette was born — and the first cohort of 30 student-volunteers began working on hunger issues in Milwaukee.
65%
internships credit and non-credit
The original plan called for handing out sand-
wiches at night. When it proved difficult to locate
422,000
people in need in the darkness of a cold Wisconsin winter, the student-volunteers rethought program-
WHAT THEY DO NEXT
ming. They set up at a central location outside the Milwaukee Public Library at lunchtime, and the
hours of service that Marquette undergraduates spend in the community each year
Undergraduate alumni employment and placement outcomes one year after graduation
hungry consistently lined up. The service continues. Each semester 160 student-volunteers sign up to work at 11 sites that serve the needs of the hungry and homeless.
72%
28%
“Midnight Run has continuously served lunch
six days a week since its earliest days,” says Gerry Fischer, associate director of Campus Ministry. “The connections we make with those we serve motivate our students to work toward the social changes that can improve their lives.” m JMM R E A D T H E H I S T O R Y of the Midnight Run at
Employed full time
Graduate school
4% Seeking employment
2% Stipendpaid postgraduate service
R E A D M O R E A B O U T O U R S T U D E N T S and the value of a
Marquette education and learn more about where we got these numbers at marquette.edu/education-value.
marquette.edu/midnight-run.
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