Service

Student Leadership and Civic Engagement provides a variety of programs and service opportunities with community partners in the many neighborhoods of Chicago, supporting students to become lifelong active citizens. We define community service for students as the process of engaging in volunteer activities without pay to help give back to their community.

This can include:

Student organization involvement*

This should not include:

Hours spent on fundraising specifically for the organization
Hours spent recruiting members for the organization
Hours spent on meetings related to club operations and business
Donating funds
Political lobbying
Religious instruction
Conducting worship, or service only to family members.

This definition, and these examples, align with the eligibility requirements of the President's Volunteer Service Award.

* If using student organization involvement as a way to fulfill community service, the following activities would not count: hours spent on fundraising specifically for the organization, recruiting members for the organization, or on meetings related to club operations and business, donating funds, political lobbying, religious instruction or conducting worship, or service only to family members. This definition, and these examples, align with the eligibility requirements of the President's Volunteer Service Award.