Spring Break Immersion Program
Solidarity, Spirituality and Mutuality.
The Spring Break Immersion Program aims to emphasize the "with" in the phrase "people for and with others."
Service Over Sunshine
The Spring Break Immersion Program offers Holy Cross students the opportunity to build relationships across economic, regional, and cultural differences with people throughout the U.S. Solidarity, spirituality, and mutuality are core values of the program.
There is no typical day for the nearly 200 students who travel to approximately 20 sites across the country during the week of Spring Break. Rather than setting out to “make a difference,” our students set out to wonder how people are doing. The program aims to emphasize the “with” in the phrase “people for and with others.” We hope that participants return to campus with a deeper appreciation for accompaniment, mutuality and shared human experience.
Spring Break Immersion Program
During the 2025 trip, The Immersion Program provided life-changing opportunities for 122 students to put the Jesuit mission into practice by building relationships, sharing their gifts and bringing about a mutual understanding of humanity with brothers and sisters in different parts of the country.
After a year of intense commitment and faith-based preparation, 20 Arrupe student-interns led teams of students to 17 domestic sites. In total, 122 students (23 seniors, 19 juniors, 41 sophomores, 39 first-year students) participated in immersion programs at groups of four sites, including those in Appalachia, Disability Rights sites, Urban Immersion sites and Sustainability sites. Pictured here is the group in Ossining, New York.
Holy Cross added a new partnership with L'Arche Tahoma Hope in Tacoma, Wash. This L'Arche site has a farm on its campus and provided five students with the opportunity to learn about both disability rights and environmental sustainability. Students also met with former Holy Cross president, Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., while on the site.
