School services include work performed in school by students that is related to the instructional objectives of any course. These services for others benefit the students, the business programs, and the school. (JOW)

Student volunteer work is now being designed to enrich their academic coursework. Volunteer administrators are being challenged to infuse volunteer student placements with opportunities for service learning. (SK)

Service learning can improve communities while preparing students for a lifetime of responsible citizenship. It helps students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized services that occur in and meet the needs of communities. Volunteering at a young age can lay the foundation for a lifelong commitment to community…

Discusses various youth service proposals before Congress, including the Nunn-Curdy bill and those by Edward M. Kennedy and Claiborne Pell. AASA's Committee on Federal Policy and Legislation will oppose any national youth service program that holds students hostage by mandating civilian or military service for college student aid applicants. (MLH)

Suggests that because of the changing demographics of college students and the likelihood that they participate in paid work, the time has come for community college staff to consider ways to support student involvement in important on-campus organizations through compensation. Describes such arrangements with precedent in the campus environment,…

When Gilberto Zelaya visited South Africa in 2000, he was struck by the high level of voter participation and turnout in that country. Back in the United States, Zelaya decided to work on voter participation in this country. As the voter empowerment director for the Montgomery County Board of Elections in Maryland, he organized a pilot program in…

Describes a program at Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kansas, in which high school seniors work twice each week as community volunteers. (IRT)

Explains the Bookends program, which combats a community's lack of books for its children. Describes how this grassroots nonprofit organization collects books for schools and youth organizations that either do not have operating libraries or have libraries that are so depleted that they cannot adequately provide all of their children with books to…

As campus student volunteer activities have grown, colleges have acknowledged the need for better organization by hiring recent graduates to coordinate them. The young deans have proven to be both enthusiastic and effective at this task. (MSE)

Waning interest in community service is spurring the Coalition for National Service and other groups to recommend various measures to encourage and finance voluntary national service for young people. This article discusses history, current definitions, and legislative initiatives concerned with national service. A sidebar provides a statement and…

Sought to determine whether student service volunteers (n=45) differ from other students (n=136) who are involved in extracurricular activities not of a service nature, and from those students (n=104) who are not involved at all. Students involved in volunteer community service activities displayed different demographic characteristics and…

Describes a program to reinforce the art-history curriculum; establish a volunteer habit; and impact students' self-esteem, communication, and leadership skills through service learning. Discusses student training and service as docents at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), and comments on the skills that they acquire through the…

Introduces service learning for those who teach health or the methods of health promotion, tracing the development of service learning, identifying two schools of service learning practice (the service-first orientation and the learning-first orientation), and proposing a definition of service learning that is broad enough to include both schools.…

The present study was conducted to examine the value of service learning hours to the Broward County community and illustrate the benefits of community service to students as well as the community at large. The total number of service learning hours contributed by Broward County high school students was aggregated from the district's data…

The process of protein synthesis, translation, is difficult for many students to understand. There are two reasons for this: (1) It is difficult to visualize the process, since the components involved in the process are not observable, and (2) There are many details, often dependent on each other and difficult to grasp independently, that are…