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Service Requirements

University of Redlands, California - CA, California
President: James Appleton

The University of Redlands is committed to community-based partnerships and systematically supports schools, hospitals, and the non-profit sector as stakeholders for the future. Student involvement can be seen most notably in the volume of service performed each year. Annually, 60,000 hours of service are given to the community through work-study placements, America Reads tutoring, an academic service requirement, faculty taught service-learning courses, non-profit internships, and volunteer outreach. The following summary lists some ways the University of Redlands has maintained its commitment to educating the hearts and minds of its students.
Graduation Required Service Hours (CSAC) Committed to teaching the ethic of service outreach, the University of Redlands requires all undergraduates to give to their community by taking a 3-unit service activity course. Each year over twenty thousand hours of service are performed at hundreds of agencies throughout the world. Placements occur annually at homeless shelters, pre-schools, police departments, safe-havens, and various other non-profit agencies whose mission the students wish to advance. The requirement is ripe for building community linkages on the reciprocal and invaluable.

Website: http://www.redlands.edu/academics/cas_academics/undergrad/csl/index.cfm?program=csl

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The experience of interacting with some of the [homeless] people on the streets was an eye-opener. You leave those types of experiences with a mix of emotions--hope, disgust, love, grief--but I always leave motivated to do more."

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