■ ■ ■ ■ ◄ - ECS May 1987 May 1987 ■ ■ volunteers, raised support money and intends to Profiles in Public Service ■ help establish a daytime "Survival Center," to provide shower facilities, a silting room, tutoring I services and job counseling for the homeless. ■ Recently, the annual Robinson Student For additional information about Campus Humanitarian Achievement Award, honoring Compact: The Project for Public and Community ■ college students who perform outstanding commu­ Service contact: Susan Stroud, director, or Saphira EDUCATION nity service, went to four individuals nominated by • Baker, assistant director, at Box 1975, Brown COMMISSION college and university presidents participating in the University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912; Campus Compact. The award, established last year telephone 401-863-1119. OF THESTATES by auomey Gerald J. Robinson as an outgrowth of • a recognition program he initiated with friends at Yale University, Cornell University and Vennont Law School, this year recognizes: • George Cuevas, of San Jose, California. A senior at Stanford University, Cuevas is a tutor and coordinator of the Barrio Assistance Pro­ gram, a student-run tutorial and skills develop­ '<41.. ■ ment program for economically and educationally ■ disadvantaged children in East Palo Aho. He is ■ responsible for seeking support and maintaining a yearly budget of more than $13,000 and for ... developing educational curriculum for the ■ program. • Joseph O'Brien, of Worcester, Massachuseus. A senior at Fordham University, the Bronx, - O'Brien recruited student volunteers as a member ■ of"Part of the Solution" (P.O.T.S.), a commu­ I nity volunteer organization, and helped raise more than $7,000 as well as having worked as a I 'lo■ cook and a counselor to help establish a soup kitchen and emergency shelter for the hungry and ■-I ~ - ■ homeless in the Bronx. • Diane Koucky, of Decatur, Illinois. A senior at ■ the University of Illinois, Urbana, Koucky is Editor's Note: ■ founderof"HOPE FOR TI-IECHfLDREN ," the This anicle is a reprint of an anic/e appearing university's first all-campus philanthophy, which in the '·Forum" section of Education Week. has raised more than $7,00010 support Mau hew The "Forum" page replaces ECS's Stute . Campus House, a community house in Champaign­ Education Rel'iew ~nd gives ECS an opponunity Urbana serving some 250 underprivileged to reach larger audiences with more analytical ~ - children. In addition, Koucky has worked as a approaches to stale education activities. ■ Compact tutor, tutor coordinator and counselor. ECS commissioners receive f n:e reprints of the • Eileen Doyle, of Demarest, New Jersey. A '·Forum" page. senior at the University of Pennsylvania, Doyle, f ■ as coordinator for Universal City Hospitality Education Commission of the States .. ■ Coalition - a volunteer organization that hosts 1860 Lincoln Street, Suite 300 five dinners weekly for the homeless- recruited ) Denver, Colorado 80295 ■ ..... ■ - ■ ..... ECS May 1987 ECS May 1987 ECS May 1987 I ■ ■ through hands-on experience. Since then their ■ ■ - A Survey orCampus Activity ■• numbers have grown exponentially. ■ Campus Compact aims to promote public Earlier this year, Campus Compact released ■-­ service as a strong component of a well-structured results ofa poll taken at 67 colleges and universities - higher education. ECS President Frank Newman, a indicating that among all surveyed institutions, ■ former university president who coordinated the student public service activities were at least establishment of this project, suggests that colleges nominally supported through programs either ■ r. could establish campus centers for volunteer ■ coordinated or sponsored by the university. Campus Compact ■ progrnms with paid staff coordinators or provide ■-■ ■ • 76% offer voluntary programs with some institu­ more adequate information about public service tional support. careers through existing career counseling and even • 66% have an information clearinghouse or offer fellowships for students proposing public ■ Critics charge that an entire generation of college coordinating office. students has lost any notion of public service as an service projects during their summer vacation - • 78% offer public service internships through integral pan of their private lives and that colleges all of which are examples of programs now under­ academic departments. and universities are doing little if anything to way at some colleges and universities in the Campus • 84% allow students to receive academic credit counter this disturbing social drift. Compact. for service work. Students, faculty and executives at more than Newman also observes that overall, few students • Almost ha/fhave actually established publi 120 campuses across the country are proving them are aware of service opportunities in their own service centers. wrong through their participation in a highly spirited communities. As most un.iversities do not have The survey also reveals that students on these ■ venture called Campus Compact: The Project for co-curricular service organizations on campus and campuses are engaged in a wide range of activity, Public and Community Service. few actively encourage public service, the very some receiving institutional support and others that Affording youth the opportunity to serve their notion of community service suffers a lack of status. students are designing and conducting indepen­ community is an idea with generational staying­ Campus Compact: The Project for Public and dently. The following data is culled from the survey. p<>wer.Consider the Civilian Conservation Corp, Community Service is chaired by Father Timothy 34% of the surveyed institutions estimate that established 1933, and later the Peace Corps, each S. Healey, S.J., president of Georgetown Univer­ slightly more than 20% of their student body is of which served two preceding generations as well sity; Howard Swearer, president of Brown Univer­ involved in public service activity. as the call by several White House hopefuls for a sity; and Donald Kennedy, president of Stanford • 21% of the institutions estimate that between federally sponsored youth service program. In University. The Compact has earned the financial 10-20% of the students are involved in public addition, no less than five national service bills have support of the private sector. Foundation funds from service. been introduced in the 100th Congress and a Ford, Johnson and Atlantic Richfield are being used • 9%ofthe institutions estimate that less than 10% growing coalition of leaders from education, social to: of their students are involved in public service. services, government and religion are giving • Establish a public service network to match • /6%ofthe institutions estimate that less than 5% impetus to the idea. students seeking service opportunities with local of their students are involved. While the vision grows and gathers the momen­ and regional service agencies • 18% of the institutions are unable to determine tum of public a11ention, college and university • Assist the establishment of on-campus public the estimate of their students involved in public presidents who have signed on with the Campus ■ service cemers service. Compact have been directing their energies to • Consolidate and improve access to public service One problem with tracking public service increasing student participation in public service for information through a national information ■ student activity is the fact that nonresidential and the past three years. .. clearinghouse ■ older students may be participating on their own Headquartered at Brown University, Campus • Sponsor regional meetings with legislators and and actually would be counted if the institution had Compact is under the administrative direction of the ■ representatives from business, higher education belier information about them. Education Commission of the States. Growing out and philanthropy of the perception that college students are exposed • Develop creative proposals for federal assistance to programs that overemphasize vocational pursuits through student-aid-for-service work at the expense of responsible civic involvement in ■ • Put the issue of youth service on the national democratic society, about three dozen college ■ agenda by promoting public awareness of the leaders met in April 1985 to discuss efforts they need for a revitalized commitment to service and could take to encourage the ethic of public service .. by stressing workable solutions .. ■ ■ The New York Times, January 14, 1987 - ,.::.';· -~, '"', 1"1 ~ .. I"·-·- · JI 1-; • .. t .·• ·..: Colleges 'Encourage Student Volunteers._.:; \ Georgetown Unl--'ty. Dr. Newman Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, 'Bryn college stlldents 1n return IIJ NADINE IROZAN 61 ol the Eduaukln ror~. · president Com. Mawr, Mount Holyoke and Radcltfte munity or military service. , miSSlOIIof lhe States and a former - held their snnual meeung at Bar­ • In C.lifomla, the State Legisla- HEN lhe Campus Corn­ pNSident of the Umverstty of Rhode narcl In November. the sole toptc 1111 pacc. an organi.zation ol llland. , ture adopted a resolull0n In Augu,t lhe agenda was "Publle Servk:e: A calling on the University of C.lifomla Other barometers of lhe In~ In UNverstty Pf'N:ldellts New Look at an Old Tradition." and the California State Universny to and chllncelk11·s,.wu u­ enlisltng 1lUdents in social ~ iD­ W • In Washlngl011 Senator Claiborne submit plans to require communlly tabhwd in NowmbeT 1185 to stimu­ clude &a-: ~11, Democrat