Through approved service internships, USL students must:
- Engage in activities that support community outreach serving a population in need
- Learn about the community partner, its mission, its daily operations, and how their service activities forward the organization’s mission
- Connect the community partner’s mission and goals to its impact on the community and social justice issues facing the community
- Cngage in direct service activities (interacting with the population served or the public) for at least 60% of required service hours*
- Not be assigned clerical, general office, accounting, bookkeeping, data entry, or administrative assistant-type tasks.
- Engage in appropriate service activities totaling 70 or 100 hours (depending upon course in which student is enrolled), spread throughout the academic semester:
Spring mid January – early May approximately 4.5 or 7.5 hours / week Summer late May – late July approximately 9 or 15 hours / week Fall late August – early December approximately 4.5 or 7.5 hours / week
Examples of appropriate service tasks
- Conduct outreach at community events
- Teach ESL courses
- Teach civics and/or citizenship classes
- Solicit in-kind and monetary donations
- Call prospective donors
- Recruit and organize volunteers
- Serve food at a homeless shelter
- Advocate for environmental policy change
- Care for hospice patients and their families
- Interview small business owners
- Exercise with physically disabled children
- Bring theater arts to at-risk youth and senior citizens
- Educate the public about sex trafficking
- Facilitate financial education classes
- Prepare free tax returns for low-income residents
- Serve as a peer leader for LBGTQA ASU students
- Work with classroom teacher to create and teach lessons directly to children
- Tutor academically at-risk children
- Assist girls in juvenile justice system with online studies
- Provide in-class assistance for struggling children
- Mentor children to increase college-going aspirations
- Lead children in service projects
- Lead sports/fitness, art, or drama activities
- Tech coach for women in transition
- Provide therapeutic horseback riding lessons for special needs groups
- Conduct parenting and literacy classes for those without a high school diploma
- Address health and wellness disparities in minority communities
- Coordinate instrument drives for under-resourced schools
- Support and coach pregnant teens or abused women
- Organize activities addressing water sustainability
Thank you for sending interns our way. We can't wait to get a new USL crew! Nickea has been terrific and Kira is still volunteering since last year.
Tamera Zivic, WHEAT