Lab Assignment : Community Service by Cal Students

Updated Information

Due Date Friday February 25

Below are some suggestions for information to obtain from students on the questionnaire:

• Why?
  course requirement, mandated service (e.g. honor society or student conduct office), graduate school application, make friends, develop leadership skills, for pay, explore majors, incentive award winner, coping strategy, to get involved
• How?
  on campus through Cal Corp, America Reads, America Counts;
  off campus through church, sorority, fraternity
  on campus through service learning course
• If you did it through campus agencies would you have done it anyway?
• Perceived barriers
  transportation, time, location, studies, disability, parent
• Do you plan to continue in the future, after you graduate from Cal?
• What do you think about required community service?
• How often did you do it?
  one semester 2 hours a week, routinely over many semesters, one short term commitment
• What did you do?
  tutoring, painting, fund-raising,

Here are some varieties of community service:

• long term - one semester for 2-4 hours a week
• short term - a one-time project, e.g. tree planting, birthday party for senior citizens, fund raising for a special event
• learning component, e.g. 197 courses where 1 unit=45 hours of field work.
• service learning where the pedagogy drives the service.