RH 6.   Service is the use of one’s time and skills to benefit an individual or community without cost to the recipient.

Criterion A1.  Initial measure:  Percentage of students who participate in service activities

Criterion B1.  Describe your experience as a volunteer for a campus or civic community.

Primary traits:  A passing submission for this criterion must:

1.       Make it clear that the student volunteered.  It is not acceptable that the student was required to do it or paid to do it.

2.       State in what role and for what organization they served.

3.       Make it clear that their actions benefitted others.

4.       Describe what service they performed.

Potential documents:  The student should submit a document (or recording) with a paragraph (section) summarizing a volunteer activity.

Additional information: 

1.       There is no need to limit the activity.  

2.       The student must be a volunteer for a campus or civic activity. 

 Criterion B2.  Apply the skills of your discipline to freely benefit others.

Primary traits:  A passing submission for this criterion must:

1.       Include how some knowledge from the student’s undergraduate education was applied to aid or assist.

2.       Describe activities that were beneficial and free to the client.

Potential documents:  The student should engage in a service experience which relies on some knowledge from their undergraduate education.

Additional information: 

1.       We have not resolved yet which of the following would be acceptable:  Homework Hotline versus lab assistant working for work/study, setting up tables for a fraternity house, service in a professional organization.

 Criterion C1.  Describe ways in which a long-term service commitment has enhanced your education. 

Primary traits:  A passing submission for this criterion must:

1.       Justify why it is “long term.” I.e., The service commitment must include multiple interactions and hours.

2.       Describe the service commitment.

3.       Explain how this experience enhanced their education or personal development.

Potential documents:  The submission must be reflective in explaining how an extended service experience enriched the student’s education.

Additional information: 

1.        Have yet to define “long term” or “repeated.”

Revision History:

April 7, 2008 by CASO