Work Crews

In any community, everyone must cooperate and pitch in to be successful. St. Lawrence, as a residential school, requires everyone to actively participate in keeping up the school. Whether a student is walking across campus and picks up wayward litter, or is completing an assigned job, everyone’s contribution allows the Seminary to be the beautiful place it is. Work crews also instill responsibility within students and reinforce the fact that every student receives a substantial reduction in tuition.

Every student has an assigned work crew. Students, on average, contribute two to three hours a week to work crews. These work crews provide necessary labor to keep down the cost of tuition and teach the students important work skills. Work crews are an important part of student formation.

Seniors are generally the student supervisors of the various work crews. Students are also expected to do various jobs in the dormitories on a rotating basis.

Because St. Lawrence Seminary is a boarding school, the students are also expected to do their own laundry and other domestic tasks that are a part of living away from home.