In spring 2006, the Higher Education Council of Berks County (HECBC) conducted a study to measure the economic impact of the five colleges located in Berks County: Alvernia College, Albright College, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus (Penn State Berks) and Reading Area Community College (RACC). Although many higher…

The School of Language Studies at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) offers full-time, intensive language training in more than 70 languages to US diplomats and other government employees preparing to serve at US Embassies abroad. Students at FSI, the primary training institution of the US foreign affairs community, have access to a fully…

Students can learn the value of public service by participating in service learning projects. Through a service learning component, students gain a personal understanding of the public sector and experience with current public issues. In this study students and teachers were assisted by service coordinators who arranged for students to experience…

Addresses the questions (1) how should community service be rendered by youth and (2) whom should it benefit. Warns that both the educational dimension and the needs of the served must be taken into account. (CH)

Outlines a successful high school orientation program using volunteer upperclass students to acclimate new students. (MD)

Volunteering rates among young people are generally higher than they are among adults 26 and older. However, measuring volunteer rates among all adults is a difficult task. In recent years, efforts at measuring volunteering have produced widely different estimates, largely because of the methods employed to measure volunteering. For example, the…

To identify key trends in college student volunteering and to understand their implications for growing volunteering among college students, the Corporation has produced a new report, titled "College Students Helping America," the most comprehensive national report ever conducted on college student volunteering in the United States. The…

It appears from this study that volunteers may be largely self-selected in regard to social skills, and further training may not be necessary. The study thus lends some support to those who have argued that the success of nonprofessionals has much to do with their natural'' social skills. (Author)

This report details the purpose and development of a student volunteer program at the University of Florida which evolved from the idea that students who volunteered to serve as informal helpers would be an effective force in orienting freshman students. (Author)

Discusses the use of school volunteers and their importance in providing valuable support for the instructional program of a school system. (Author/GB)

This report on the use of paraprofessionals in the counseling center suggests that the undergraduate paraprofessional may be the most effective agent for the delivery of certain student services. (JC)

Actual appeals for help were used as stimuli to determine behavioral correlates of different attitudes toward the disabled held by persons in different occupational groups. Rates of those volunteering assistance showed students who had previous experience in contacts with disabled persons responding at a higher rate than those with no previous…

The principal of DeLand (Florida) Junior High School describes a system which has been successful in overcoming apathy toward his student council. (Editor)