2nd Service-Learning Friday: I of Investigation

During the second Service-Learning Friday, students finished completing the profile handout and the 8 questions provided by administrators, faculty and upperclassmen. They also signed up for home groups. Only two students were absent.

Students were shown a collection of their description of Peace and Stress. Then the class proceeded to discuss the difference between volunteerism and service-learning. Volunteerism: focuses on service receipient. Service-Learning: focuses of service provider: learning, growing, transforming by focusing on community needs. The discussion also took the class to explore service as a de-stressor. Next week we will continue the I of investigation with our first class project: Pinwheels for Peace. The project will be announced at chapel Thursday. Interested upperclassmen will be able to make Pinwheels, which after being displayed at the International Day of Peace Celebration at Will Rogers Amphitheater, will decorate the library Christmas tree and be taken to hospitals to brighten the rooms of children with long hospital stays.

Students without Study Halls and new students were called to receive the handout and Service-Learning explanation after chapel. A few completed the form, but none have signed up for home groups yet. The week of September 8, Mrs. Clay will follow-up and get these students to sign for home groups. By Friday Sept. 11, all students should have a place where they should go the first E-Day-Block A at the library, a place chosen by the senior YAC chair as the first location for the home group meetings.