Meliora Weekend 2025 student volunteer sign-up form

  • Each year, students, alumni, families, friends, and faculty and staff come together to celebrate Meliora Weekend. As the largest of the four Community Weekends – with events taking place on all campuses – the weekend requires the help of hundreds of professional staff and volunteers. Student volunteers play a huge part in ensuring the weekend is a success by assisting with on-site registration and check-in, event support, and welcoming the thousands of people who return to Rochester every year to celebrate!

    Roles, Responsibilities, and Values

    • Student volunteers must help with at least two shifts (averaging 3-5 hours total) during the weekend.
    • Volunteers should be organized, punctual, able to stand for the duration of their shift, and can work with large groups of people for extended periods of time.
    • Potential volunteer roles include:
      • Greeting and checking-in guests at on-site registration.
      • Greeting and scanning guests at individual events.
      • Dropping off and/or picking up floral arrangements or event signage.
      • Monitoring tent entrances.
      • Assisting with kid-friendly activities.
    • Most importantly, Meliora Weekend is about having fun and connecting with the greater University of Rochester community, so we are looking for volunteers who embody this mindset!

    Perks and Benefits

    • An exclusive MW Student Volunteer t-shirt.
    • Entry into raffle drawings for the keynote lunch and comedian show.
    • “Truck Bucks” to use toward free or discounted food and beverages at the food trucks.
    • Access to “staff only” spaces to relax and recharge during the weekend.
    • Opportunities to connect and network with University of Rochester alumni.
    The full volunteer description can be found here.

    Questions?

    Contact Ahren Henby, Assistant Director of Student Engagement, at ahren.henby@rochester.edu.

    How to Sign Up

    Complete and submit this interest form and we’ll follow to share additional details and to confirm your availability during the weekend.


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