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This 3 page paper discusses the benefits of mandatory community service for college/university graduation. The essay identifies some of the many benefits, which are supported in the literature. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the community. They gain a sense of responsibility to the community in which they live. The service in which they are involved is typically related to their field of study,
therefore, they gain practical experience. When the community service program is structured properly, i.e., service learning or academic service learning, students have a greater understanding of the theories they are
studying. In testimony at the California Performance Review Commission Public Hearings, Elaine Ikeda, Executive Director of California Campus Compact, said there is a significant difference between volunteering and community
service (Ikeda, 2004). When community service is linked with academic learning, students gain a sense of civic responsibility, a greater sense of responsibility to the community, and have greater retention
of the subject matter (Ikeda, 2004). The comparative "greater" is in comparison with simple volunteerism (Ikeda, 2004). Students enrolled in the Role Model Program courses at Florida State
University are required to complete 20 hours of community service for every course (Collum, 2005). These hours provide students with practical experience with youth while reinforcing the theoretical framework they
are studying (Collum, 2005). Slater reports that Monterey Bay College requires community service because they want their graduates to learn "responsibility and skills to be community builders" (2004). Monterey
Bay is the only public state in California that requires community service for graduation (Slater, 2004) although there is a pending bill that would require all students to complete community
service as a requirement for graduation (Slater, 2004; Ikeda, 2004). Volunteerism among college students is not new, it has always been a mainstay of college but community service is different
(Ikeda, 2004). The difference is that when community service is required, there is an academic component that accompanies it (Ikeda, 2004; Slater, 2004; Collum, 2005). This is sometimes referred to
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