First-Year Students' Plans to Volunteer: An Examination of the Predictors...

Journal of College Student Development;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......impacts of community service participation...differences in first-year students' decision...successful community service participation among first-year students. Since the...barriers to community service participation...almost 130,000 ...

HONORS SCHOLAR CALLS COMMUNITY SERVICE AN 'AMAZING EXPERIENCE'

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......service-learning course for first-year students that got underway...for National & Community Service, found that the...English course for first-year students. Students who participate...perform 30 hours of community service per year (but ...

TEENS WHO HELP OTHERS | VOLUNTEERISM GAINS POPULARITY AS TEENS SEE...

Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  November 22, 1998 ;     535 words ...Some teen-agers see mandatory community service as a hassle, something they're forced...times are changing so are the views on community service and the clubs that do community service. Volunteerism is becoming a big national...

COLUMN: Mandating community service

University Wire;  April 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......U-WIRE) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- COMMUNITY service has gotten a lot of attention these...Madison House, there is no denying that community service has a powerful presence Community service requirements have sparked the question...

Community service in Texas: results of a probation survey.

Corrections Compendium;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Community service is compulsory labor performed by an offender as punishment for a crime and is often referred to as a community service order. An offender imposed a community service order is required to perform labor for a certain...

Don't Call It Community Service

The Washington Post;  November 17, 1992 ;     653 words ......across this land have been giving community service a bad name. In exchange for venality...often sentenced to punitive doses of "community service" in lieu of spending time in jail...broken law was there to protect. "Community" service, on the other hand, is every citizen...

COMMUNITY SERVICE IS GREAT WAY TO STAY INFORMED, INVOLVED

Evansville Courier & Press;  August 6, 2006 ;     502 words ......a step further. Let's talk about community service in general a how great it is for...Evansville Beautiful volunteers know: Community service makes you feel wonderful. Several...the Corporation for National and Community Service did a survey of students involved...

'Why is Community Service Important?'.(Neighbor)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 10, 2002 ;     368 words ...One may ask, Why is community service important? Community service is important because it gives people the opportunity...provides us with new ideas for a better education. Community service is giving back to those that have given so much...

Clinton plan may fall short; community service to pay tuition gets...

Crain's Cleveland Business;  November 15, 1993 ;     625 words ......administrators say President Clinton's community service plan is a step in the right direction...September signed the National and Community Service Trust Act. The act created AmeriCorps...exchange for two years of full-time community service. Mark Falbo, director of ...

Community service not compulsory, but encouraged.(News)

Pretoria News (South Africa);  August 15, 2008 ;     415 words ......newspaper reports suggesting that community service would become compulsory for university...across the country have launched community service programmes, these will not become...encouraged institutions to integrate community service into their academic activities. This...

Community service.(Commentary)(Editorials)

The Washington Times;  October 9, 1996 ;     413 words ......lower court ruling that mandatory community service is not a form of involuntary servitude...country to go on making voluntary community service a requirement for high school graduation...But the question remains whether community service is something those elders and betters...

Cal State-Chico students may need to do community service to graduate

University Wire;  November 3, 1999 ;     656 words ......have something in common: required community service. Such a requirement would have numerous...Reed requesting support in making community service a graduation requirement in order...and their desire to take part in community service, but Esteban is hesitant to believe...

Why celebrity criminals add force to public doubt about community service

The Scotsman;  May 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ......sentenced last week to 160 hours' community service at a gay and lesbian support group. It was greeted with hoots of derision. Community service (common prefix, "got off with") has...magistrates to rely more heavily on community service as an alternative to imprisonment...

COLLEGE STUDENTS CLEAN UP; ORIENTATION FOR ESF STUDENTS INCLUDES COMMUNITY...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  August 29, 2004 ;     433 words ......Fish, of Long Island, teamed up with about 40 other first-year students at the State University College of Environmental Science...of student programs for the college. These guys are first-year students, Flynn said. We want them to know right away that service is part of our culture. ...

COLLEGES COMING UP SHORT ON WORK-STUDY RULE MIT IS 1 OF 200 VIOLATING...

The Boston Globe;  February 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......employment office. "It would be nice to do community service, but the time to leave campus and...or 2 percent, to students doing community service, far below the 7 percent Congress...percent of their work-study money to community service by 2010. If the bill becomes law...