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Credit for Serving
A New Vision for National Service in Higher Education
By Carmel Martin, Ben Miller, Shiv Rawal, and Phoebe Sweet September 2015
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By Carmel Martin, Ben Miller, Shiv Rawal, and Phoebe Sweet September 2015
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1 Introduction and summary
4 The case for service
6 Service-learning proposal
9 Service and federal student aid
13 Ways to fund increased national service
18 Conclusion
20 Endnotes
Contents
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Introduction and summary
Tis pas spring, A’licia Williams, 20, a suden a Miami Dade College, spen a
week working wih Breaking Freean organizaion ha serves survivors o sex
rafficking in S. Paul, Minnesoaas par o her college’s alernaive spring break
service program. Even as Williams and her peers were making a difference in he
lives o hose who survived horrible circumsances, he one-week service experi-
ence alered he course o Williams’ lie as well. Afer speaking o a rafficking
survivor and learning abou he woman’s effors o reconnec wih her daugher
despie he rauma she had endured, Williams made a decision abou he uure.Reflecing on her service, as well as on her own difficul upbringingbeing raised
by a moher who dropped ou o high school and growing up wihou a aher’s
presenceWilliams, a pre-med suden, realized her rue passion was o pursue a
career as an adolescen psychologis.1
Williams’ experience working wih he S. Paul service organizaion inspired her
o become more involved in her communiy a home in Miami, Florida. Since her
spring break experience, Williams has voluneered in he maerniy ward a a local
hospial and has become an advocae or suden service hrough her work-sudy
job a her college’s Insiue or Civic Engagemen and Democracy, where she
works 17 hours a week. Moreover, Williams says ha her service experiences are
helping prepare her or a career o assising children and eens overcome chal-
lenges similar o he ones she aced as a child.
oday, Williams juggles a par-ime job, which conribues o her amily’s bo-
om line, wih her school and service schedules. She is deermined o make he
balancing ac work. Williams is on rack o graduae wih an associae’s degree in
psychology in 2016 and plans o go on o a our-year college afer graduaion. And
she says ha service has become boh a valuable par o her educaion and a wayo prepare or a career in he social service field.
Learning hrough service has been shown o have many imporan and angible
benefis or sudens, including enhanced leadership skills, increased sel-con-
fidence, and improved academic oucomes.2 I can also provide sudens wih
relevan workorce experience ha builds he ypes o skills employers seek.
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Unorunaely, lower-income sudens, such as Williams, are less likely o parici-
pae in service while in college compared o heir higher-income peers,3 which
means hey have limied access o he benefis ha accrue rom paricipaing in
service. More affluen sudens, meanwhile, may no be atending colleges ha
have esablished robus service opporuniies, and all sudens need access o
service programs ha do no delay heir progress oward compleing a degree. Williams and oher sudens who paricipae in service despie hese challenges
demonsrae a clear appeie or inensive service-learning opporuniies on col-
lege campuses. Bu more mus be done o help hem pursue hese opporuniies.
Given he imporance o service learning, colleges canno keep reaing service
as merely an exracurricular add-on. Insead, he Cener or American Progress
proposes a new vision or service learning in higher educaion. Under he CAP
proposal, colleges and universiies would esablish service programs ha award col-
lege credi or service opporuniies ha direcly relae o a suden’s area o sudy.
A suden would spend up o one-quarer o heir degree program paricipaing ininensive service opporuniies. When paired wih some addiional academic work,
hese service experiences would yield sufficien academic credi so ha sudens
say on rack o graduae. Imporanly, hese service programs would be eligible or
ederal suden aid unds, which would make hem more affordable or sudens.
Williams’ difficuly finding he ime and resources o serve highlighs he need
or new ways o srucuring hese programs. She does no receive college credi
or her service work a he hospialnor did she earn credi or he service
rip o Minnesoa because here was no ormal academic componen o he
program. aking a week off rom work o go o Minnesoa mean working exra
hours a her par-ime job or he nex week in order o cach up financially.
Since Williams helps suppor her siblings, moher, and grandmoher, she
needed o make up he income los during her service. Furhermore, he rip o
S. Paul isel cos several hundred dollars, a sum ha Williams sruggled o pay
despie undraising o cover a porion o he expense.
Awarding credi or inensive service learning would go a long way oward
overcoming he barriers ha sudens such as Williams ace. For he low-income
and older sudens who make up an increasing share o oday’s college atendees,adding sufficien academic rigor in order o make service programs eligible or
ederal suden aid would help hem pursue service while worrying less abou how
o cover increasingly high uiion bills. And sudens rom all income backgrounds
would benefi rom receiving college credi, so hey do no have o choose
beween service and aking longer o graduae.
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Tis credi-or-service proposal is also a way o bridge he disconnec ha exiss
oday beween sudens and heir preparaion or he workorce. While mos
sudens see geting a good job as a key reason or atending college,4 he major-
iy o sudens do no believe college adequaely prepares hem or employmen.5
A he same ime, employers say ha college graduaes lack he skills hey need
or he real world.6
Naional servicecommuniy work ha addresses he majorchallenges acing he Unied Saescan miigae his disconnec by allowing
sudens o gain pracical, real-world skills. Supplemenary coursework can help
sudens grow academically a he same ime. Schools can spread he benefis o
service in a smar, accessible, and effecive way by implemening programs ha
pair naional service wih learning, and he ederal governmen can aciliae his
process or communiy colleges and universiies.
Tis repor lays ou wha i would ake or colleges and universiies o esablish he
ypes o programs discussed above. In paricular, i considers how hese programs
could overcome barriers o service, as well as wha hey would need o do o become eligible or ederal suden aid. Te repor also includes real-lie examples
o colleges and sudens paricipaing in he exac ype o opporuniies his pro-
posal would like o see flourish.
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The case for service
Te never-ending rise in he price o college has oday’s sudens increasingly
worried abou wheher heir academic programs will pay off in he long run. More
han 85 percen o incoming reshmen indicae ha geting a good job is a very
imporan reason or atending college.7 While he benefis o college clearly go
beyond jus financial reurns, he economics o atending college is a very under-
sandable ear, paricularly given ha 70 percen o sudens who earn a bachelor’s
degree have o borrow or college, and hose who borrow walk away wih an aver-
age deb balance o nearly $30,000.8
Making sure ha sudens graduae rom college wih he necessary skills or success
in he workorce is crucial o ensuring ha a college degree is worh he expense.
Wha are hose skills? According o employers, hey wan graduaes who have par-
icipaed in an experience where hey can apply heir learning; work wih ohers in a
eam seting; and can engage in ehical judgmen and decision-making.9
Ye neiher employers nor sudens believe ha college graduaes are acquiring
he skills ha hey need. One poll ound ha only 35 percen o surveyed sudens
believe college prepared hem or a job.10 And jus 23 percen o surveyed employ-
ers said sudens know how o apply knowledge and skills o he real world.11
Encouraging more sudens o pursue naional service is one way o help college
graduaes secure he skills necessary or success in oday’s workorce. By placing
sudens ino real-world siuaions in heir communiies, hey can learn how o
work collaboraively, manage projecs, and apply heir academic learning. Such
opporuniies are also likely o help wih so-called sof skillssuch as eamwork,
communicaion, and neworkingha also mater or workorce success.12 Service
learninghe pracice o inegraing service ino he academic insrucion o acoursehas been shown o promoe leadership skills, a commimen o diversiy,
sel-confidence, a sronger sense o sel, and a sronger commimen o social issues
in paricipaing sudens.13 One sudy ound ha service learning had posiive effecs
on academic oucomes, sel-efficacy, leadership, and plans o paricipae in urher
service afer college.14 Tese are he skills and values ha employers demand.
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However, he benefis o service remain ou o reach or many lower-income col-
lege sudens. According o U.S. Deparmen o Educaion survey daa ha looked
a dependen sudens a public or privae nonprofi our-year colleges, hose in
he botom income quarile were 25 percen more likely o no voluneer each
monh han hose in he highes income quarile.15
Lower service raes among less-affluen sudens reflecs he realiy ha many o
hese individuals, raher han paricipaing in service, have o spend heir ime
ouside he classroom working in order o make ends mee, no only or hemselves,
bu ofenimes or heir amilies as well.16 Research urher suggess ha socioeco-
nomic saus migh influence sudens’ likelihood o paricipaing in service boh in
high school and in college. One sudy ound ha sudens who did no paricipae
in service in boh high school and college came rom he lowes socioeconomic
backgrounds.17 Meanwhile, hose who paricipaed in service in boh high school
and college came rom he mos affluen amilies. Te auhors addiionally ound
ha he sudens who paricipaed in service in high school bu no college had hehighes suden loan deb.18 Bu among sudens who do paricipae in service, here
is litle difference in he amoun o ime spen serving. Disadvanaged youh who do
engage in service do so a he same inensiy as hose rom more privileged back-
grounds.19 Tese sudens are also more likely han heir more affluen peers o wan
o engage in service in order “o gain experience or school or work.”20
Admitedly, concerns abou deb and cos burdens may no be he only barriers ha
explain why service is no ofen atainable or lower-income sudens. Lower-income
sudens enroll in college a lower raes han heir wealhier peers and are less likely
o complee heir degrees.21 Tough i is oo much o expec service programs alone
o solve hese major higher educaion issues, ensuring ha hese service opporuni-
ies conain academic credi and provide relevan workorce experiences may a leas
help sudens say in college and be beter prepared o succeed in heir careers.
While closing service gaps by socioeconomic saus should be o paramoun
concern, more mus be done in order o raise he percenage o sudens engaging
in service learning among sudens rom all backgrounds. According o he same
Deparmen o Educaion daa on dependen sudens reerenced earlier, only
abou hal o he mos affluen sudens repored doing any voluneering eachmonh.22 In addiion, jus 14 percen o hose same sudens voluneered more
han 10 hours a monh.23 Tis suggess ha ar oo many sudens are neiher
presened wih nor aking advanage o imporan opporuniies o serve heir
communiies while simulaneously developing skills ha will serve hem well in
he workorce in he uure.
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In 2008, just two years into his education at The Pennsylvania State
University, Phillip Ellison dropped out of college—a victim of the Great
Recession. Seven years later, Ellison is back in school, is an honors
student at Tufts University, and is a co-founder of a tech startup. Ellison,
who always wanted to finish college, credits a year of serving with an
AmeriCorps program for setting him back on track to a degree.
Ellison participated in AmeriCorps’ City Year program, which places
young adults in high-poverty public schools.24 In exchange for
service, the program offers a monthly stipend along with monetary
awards that can be spent repaying student loan debt or pursuing
further education. Ellison said these incentives, as well as an interest
in working in the education field, inspired him to apply for City Year
in 2009. Although his service year was one of the most challenging
experiences of his life, it sparked his passion for service and gave him
skills that have put him on a path to graduate from college in 2016.
City Year was just the start of Ellison’s service work. After City Year,
Ellison went on to work with NYC Service, where he joined an effort
to cool rooftops in the city.25 He also enrolled in City University of
New York, or CUNY, Hostos Community College, where he was both
a tutor and mentor.
Ellison’s next idea for helping students came during his own m
from CUNY Hostos to Tufts. During that process, he was struck b
lack of advising resources available to students interested in tra
ring to four-year colleges and universities. So he started workin
nearby Roxbury Community College to explore a solution to wh
he termed the “advising gap” that he experienced at his commu
college.26 This work turned into the idea for ULink,27 a tech star
Ellison is working on that aims to leverage technology to conne
college students with the resources they need in order to plan
futures. He is currently working on ULink at Smarter in the City
high-tech business accelerator in Boston.28
Ellison credits City Year for changing his trajectory and putting
track to graduate and start his own business. Because of his exp
ence, Ellison wants to see colleges do more to connect student
service opportunities. He points to Tufts’ 1+4 Bridge-Year Servi
Learning Program29 —which is placing 15 incoming students in
domestic and international organizations for a year of service b
they begin their four-year degrees at Tufts30—as an example o
schools can secure partnerships and funding to make long, inte
service accessible for students like Ellison, who stand to both g
and contribute through national service.
Phillip Ellison and his City Year experience
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Service-learning proposal
Opening he benefis o service o all sudens, regardless o socioeconomic
background, requires rehinking is place in possecondary educaion programs.
Tis means sudens ruly dedicaed o service should no longer have o rea
i as eiher an exracurricular aciviy done in one’s spare ime or an inensive
experience ha requires emporarily pausing sudies and exending he ime o
graduaion. Insead, colleges and universiies should sar creaing dedicaed
service opporuniies ha are inegraed componens o degree programs. Tis
would be done hrough esablishing programs in which sudens would spendone year wihin a our-year programor one semeser in a wo-year offer-
ingpursuing service aciviies. Tese aciviies would carry college credi; be
supplemened by addiional academic courses as needed; and have o provide
experiences direcly relaed o a suden’s major.
Under his proposal, sudens would engage in 20 hours o 30 hours o service
per week wih an organizaion ha has parnered wih heir universiy. Alongside
heir service, sudens would simulaneously enroll in academic or-credi courses.
Tese courses would serve as a companion o heir service and would align real-
world experience and academic learning wih he goal o building career readiness.
In addiion o approximaely five hours o academic coursework per week, he
programs would provide suppor services, such as advising, in order o ensure ha
paricipans are ully engaged in heir service aciviy, as well as keeping pace wih
he atainmen o academic and career skills. Colleges and universiies would be
required o develop appropriae academic coursework ha ensures sudens receive
credi or heir service and keeps hem on rack o complee heir degrees on ime.
How migh his look in pracice? Imagine a suden who is majoring in com-
puer science. Insead o spending a ull year exclusively learning coding in aclassroom, hey would spend a year as a web developer or a nonprofi organi-
zaion serving high-povery communiies while simulaneously aking supple-
menal courses. Te hands-on experience helps he suden sharpen his or her
skills while serving communiies in need; he supplemenal coursework helps
he suden say on rack or graduaion. Oher pairings could include a suden
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sudying environmenal sciences working wih a local ciy agency ha measures
he healh o nearby oress and bodies o waer, or a business major who spends
a year assising a nonprofi’s managemen eam.
Service-learning opporuniies, however, can only work i hey carry legiimae
academic rigor and are relevan o a suden’s academic and career readiness. Foreffecive service experiences, colleges and universiies would need o culivae
srong parnerships wih well-managed local service organizaions ha have
he abiliy o ensure sudens are geting he mos ou o heir service. Colleges
would also need o ully ve opporuniies and make sure ha srong accoun-
abiliy srucures are in place.
Supplemening service wih academics is a key par o CAP’s proposal. Research
shows ha benefis rom service learning are mos srongly associaed wih
academic oucomes and ha a suden’s degree o ineres in he subjec ma-
er is he mos influenial acor o a posiive service-learning experience.31 Successul programs would also provide a orum or sudens o criically reflec
and discuss heir experiences. Research shows ha reflecing on he experience
o service hough processing and digesing he experienceespecially hrough
discussions wih oher sudensconribues o he posiive benefis associaed
wih service.32 One sudy even suggess ha he core experience o service is
he exchange o ideas across “boundaries o perceived difference,” boh during
he service and hrough reflecion.33 Tese sudies underscore he imporance
o srucured reflecion hrough suden discussions, journals, and relaionships
wih proessors. As orums or reflecion, supplemenary academic courses can
serve as a criical par o sudens’ service experiences, helping hem o maxi-
mize heir learning rom communiy work.
Te awarding o college credi is also imporan in order o ensure ha paricipa-
ing in service does no impede progress o graduaion. I sudens were o only
earn a racion o he credis hey would normally receive in a semeser, hey
would be unable o complee college on ime, which raises heir overall price o
atending college and ataining a degree. Given he role amily income plays in
sudens’ likelihood o paricipaing in service, a proposal ha would delay gradu-
aion and increase he cos o college would no be easible or many low- andmiddle-income sudens.
In order o measure he efficacy o programs and conribue o research on service
learning in college, schools would be required o rack suden oucomes boh during
and beyond he service erm. By measuring and publishing hese oucomes, schools
would generae he daa needed o gauge heir respecive programs’ perormance,
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as well as ideniy areas in need o improvemen. Te daa would also conribue o
research in his field, allowing or he measuremen o he effecs o service experi-
ences on academics, college compleion, and career placemen.
Because CAP’s proposal would inegrae service ino exising degree plans and
keep sudens on rack or graduaion, sudens would be able o apply heirederal loans and grans oward heir service experiences. Te abiliy o use ederal
suden aid oward a year-long service experience would be an imporan college
financing mechanism or sudens.
Even hough ederal suden aid unds would help pay or hese service programs,
some sudens may sill be discouraged rom paricipaing because engaging in
service could mean losing criical supplemenary income rom par-ime work.
A minimum, he service sudens complee under programs suppored by his
proposal should qualiy as a work-sudy eligible aciviy. Colleges are already
required o spend a leas 7 percen o heir work-sudy unds on sudens engag-ing in communiy service, and sudens who paricipae in service programs
should be eligible or hese unds. Addiionally, any ederal gran unds ha help
colleges finance service programs could prioriize schools ha ensure heir service
programs are accessible and affordable or all sudens.
Drake University, a private university in Des Moines, Iowa,34 offers one
example of how a college can provide a credit-bearing academic com-
ponent that supplements long service experiences for their students.
Drake plans to offer a new service program, the Engaged Citizen Corps,
in the fall of 2016.35 Participating students will spend their first under-
graduate year completing service with agencies or organizations that
work on issues regarding housing, transportation, health and safety,
business cultivation, and arts and culture in the city of Des Moines.
While serving, students in the Engaged Citizen Corps will also com-
plete a course load that includes four to five classes related to theirservice. These classes will be worth enough credits during the year
so that students will receive all the federal student aid for which they
qualify.36 Moreover, many of the service-related classes fulfill general
education requirements, while the rest are general elective credits.
These electives will allow students to choose courses that fit within
their specific degrees of study. Reflection and group discussion
students’ service experiences are built into classroom instructio
Students in the program will also receive an $8,500 living stipe
and they will all live on the same floor in a Drake University res
hall.37 The program aims to recruit 15 to 20 students for the ina
Engaged Citizen Corps in the 2016-17 school year.38
Before creating the Engaged Citizen Corps, Drake University un
derwent a detailed community assessment process for identify
nonprofits, community organizations, and local public agencie
could host students.39
This included interviews and survey resewith the university’s existing partner organizations to identify s
community needs and the capacity of organizations to take on
dents interested in serving. This process will hopefully result in
partnerships with well-managed local service organizations, w
will allow students to get the most out of their service.
Drake University’s Engaged Citizen Corps
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Service and federal student aid
Te naional service opporuniies described in his repor mus be eligible
or ederal suden aid. Tis is crucial o guaraneeing he programs are avail-
able o everyone regardless o heir economic background. Allowing sudens
o coninue o access ederal grans and loans will make i possible or hem o
cover living and uiion expenses ha hey oherwise may no be able o afford
wihou working insead o serving.
Tere are several ways a college could poenially make he embedded naional ser- vice componen o a degree program eligible or ederal suden aid. Tese depend
upon hings such as wheher sudens complee heir service near heir college; i
heir insiuion is able o offer disance or correspondence educaion; as well as
several oher acors. Bu he overall heme is he same: Colleges need some way o
combine service wih rigorous educaional experiences ha are sufficien o jusiy
he awarding o college credis ha conribue o a degree program.40
Faculy buy-in will be crucial or deermining he rigor o he educaional compo-
nen o service experiences. In mos public and privae nonprofi insiuions, he
choice o award credi and veriy academic rigor is ulimaely made by he aculy.
Tey are also responsible or designing programs and hus will need o configure
degree opions ha incorporae service.
Federal rules also play a role in governing wha couns as a college credi or he
purposes o financial aid programs. Tese rules define a credi hour as an amoun
o work ha reasonably approximaes “one hour o classroom or direc aculy
insrucion and a minimum o wo hours o ou o class suden work each week or
approximaely fifeen weeks or one semeser.”41 Equivalen work done or inern-
ships or oher similar learning experiences can also be couned or credi.42
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Insiuions have significan flexibiliy wihin his ederal definiion. Tese ime-
based requiremens do no have o be me each and every week bu insead are
he average over he course o he semeser. So a college could sill offer ederal
aid or a program where sudens spend some weeks doing only service work wih
an expecaion ha sudens record and reflec on heir experiences, while oher
weeks sudens undergo a more inensive academic experience. A college also hashe discreion o deermine wha reasonably approximaes hese requiremens.43
Jus making hese service-learning opporuniies eligible or some college credi is
no enough: Te combinaion o service and oher educaional work should ideally
equal a leas 15 credi hours per semeser or he equivalen or oher academic
erms. Tis is because he amoun o financial aid a suden receives is direcly ied
o he number o credis hey atemp. Sudens who atemp ewer han 12 credi
hours in a given semeser canno receive he ull amoun o gran unds available o
hem, while sudens who complee less han 15 credi hours per semeser migh
no be able o complee a bachelor’s degree in our years or an associae’s degree inwo years.44 Under his repor’s model, a college needs o combine he credi-or-
service experience wih whaever supplemenary coursework is necessary o ge a
suden o ull-ime saus. Anyhing less would likely resul in sudens ailing o
graduae on ime or qualiying or ewer ederal suden aid dollars.
Given hese requiremens, colleges have various opions o combine ull-ime or
close o ull-ime service wih sufficien academic credi or a suden. Tese pos-
sibiliies also vary a bi depending on wheher a suden will be doing he service
close o heir college. Below are a ew differen ways his could work in pracice,
alhough his by no means precludes oher ways o address he problem.
Service near a student’s college
I a suden is doing heir service near he college ha hey atend, he academic
credi requiremens could likely be ulfilled hrough a combinaion o indepen-
den sudies or coursework back on campus. For example, a suden could spend
our days a week a heir service projec and one day on campus in order o check
in wih proessors and atend classes. Some coursework could also be offered anigh, allowing sudens o serve during he day. Proximiy o campus could also
allow insrucors o visi service sies in order o ensure ha he hands-on learning
is properly ailored o he academic program.
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Service away from a student’s college
Tese service opions could sill be eligible or academic credi wihou grea
difficuly i sudens are no close o heir home colleges. One opion would be
hrough online learning or some oher kind o disance educaion. In his model,
he suden would complee heir service work and hen also paricipae in onlineclasses ha build on wha hey are learning during he day and are ied o heir
academic program. Alernaively, a consorium o colleges could orm a writen
arrangemen whereby hey would each agree o accep service-learning cred-
is rom each oher.45 Such agreemens would allow sudens o ake courses a
insiuions close o heir service sie wih he knowledge ha hose credis would
be acceped oward heir degree when hey reurned o heir home campus. Tese
ypes o arrangemens are similar o how colleges handle he ranser o credi or
sudens sudying abroad.
Finally, a college could consruc a model where a suden’s semeser is comprisedo 10 weeks o 12 weeks o service ollowed by hree inensive academic weeks
where hey have in-person ime wih an insrucor back on heir home campus in
order o supplemen he learning ha occurred while in service. Te resul would
sill be an average o roughly 12 hours a week o classroom ime bu compressed
ino he end o he semeser.
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Ways to fund increased
national service
Designing and implemening a successul service-learning program could require
some upron coss in erms o boh dollars and saff ime or paricipaing
schools. However, given he benefis o service o sudens, schools, and com-
muniies, he ederal governmen should play a role in paving he way or insiu-
ions o develop and launch service-learning programs. Tere are several ways he
ederal governmen could financially suppor more naional service models such
as he ones described in his repor. Tis involves finding ways o assis colleges in
esablishing new embedded naional service programs, as well as direcing moreresources o sudens so ha hey can ake advanage o hese opporuniies. Each
ype o unding is described in greaer deail below.
Institutional support
While he cos o operaing an ongoing embedded naional service program may
no be paricularly expensive, colleges are likely o ace implemenaion expenses.
Tis includes direc financial coss, such as building online-learning opporuniies,
which would allow sudens who are no doing heir service work locally o sill
ake courses. Bu here are also expenses associaed wih reeing up aculy and
adminisraion saff o weak or creae programs o sudy ha include naional ser-
vice; esablish parnerships wih service providers; and make sure he deails align
wih accrediors and he Deparmen o Educaion in order o ensure financial aid
eligibiliy or paricipaing sudens.
o assis in he speedy creaion o hese credi-bearing service programs,
Congress should esablish a new und specifically designed or his purpose.
Tis program could provide one-ime gran unding o colleges on he ordero $100,000 o $250,000 o cover curricular design, parnership building, and
oher relaed coss ha mus be addressed o ge service opporuniies creaed.
Tese dollars would be separae rom suden suppor unds. One posiive
aspec o such a suppor model is ha i easily scales up. Te more Congress
spends, he more programs i can help esablishbu even smaller annual
invesmens could sill suppor dozens o colleges.
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Te srucure o his new naional service capaciy-building program could ake
several orms. A is mos basic, he program could award dollars based solely
on he qualiy o applicaions, much in he same way as many oher compeiive
programs. A more ineresing model would be o effecively provide a sarup
loan o a college hoping o consruc a service program. However, insead o
repaying he loan wih dollars, he college’s obligaion could be slowly decreasedor each suden ha i successully places in a credi-bearing service opporu-
niy. Tis would encourage colleges o grow programs quickly and reward hose
ha are able o do so on a large scale.
Congress could also suppor he creaion o he programs described in his repor
by reviving suppor or he Learn and Serve America Program. Housed wihin he
Corporaion or Naional and Communiy Service, or CNCS, his program pro-
vided direc unding o higher educaion insiuions, saes, school disrics, and
nonprofis in order o engage in service-learning aciviies.46 Ta program used o
receive approximaely $80 million a year bu has no been unded since 2011.47
Tere may also be exising opions wihin he Deparmen o Educaion’s budge
o help suppor similar aciviies. One opion would be o use exising insiu-
ional suppor resources. For example, he deparmen receives $80 million each
year or he Srenghening Insiuions Program, which suppors he “develop-
men and improvemen o academic programs,” among oher purposes.48 Since
unds in hese programs are compeiively awarded, he secreary o educaion
could give applicans seeking unds rom his program addiional poinsand
a greaer chance o winningi hey promise o use he dollars hey receive or
naional service programs. Tis would provide a way o und a leas $10 million
o $20 million or naional service.49
Student support
Te srucure o exising ederal educaion benefis means ha i should no be di-
ficul o suppor sudens who paricipae in hese embedded service programs. (See
secion on service and ederal suden aid or more deail) I insiuions properly
consruc service experiences so ha hey award college credi, hen i should also bepossible o coun hese credis or he purpose o ederal suden aid eligibiliy. Tis
would mean ha a suden who is paricipaing in a service-learning opporuniy and
aking college courses could sill receive he ederal Pell Grans and suden loans
hey are eniled o by law. In ha regard, ensuring here is a credi-bearing elemen o
hese service programs is he mos imporan par or addressing suden affordabiliy.
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Bu in some cases, ederal financial aid unding may be insufficien o ully sup-
por sudens. o urher close he cos gap, Congress should creae new special
service grans. Tese unds would be paid ou o sudens as hey progress hrough
heir service opporuniies, similar o how employees receive regular paychecks.
Insiuing a maching requiremen or eiher schools or service providers could
also help increase he number o sudens served by ederal dollars. In addiion onew service grans, he ederal work-sudy program could also be beter direced
oward embedded naional service programs. Te work-sudy program disburses
unds on a ormula basis o colleges, which can hen award hem o sudens in
he orm o wages or eiher an on- or off-campus job.50 Unlike he major ederal
gran and loan programs, work-sudy unding is no guaraneed or any eligible
sudencolleges choose which sudens can earn work-sudy wages, and no one
is guaraneed o receive suppor. Te work-sudy program is also quie smallhe
ederal governmen spends only $990 million on he program each year compared
o more han $32 billion i spends annually on Pell Grans.51
While increasing unding or he work-sudy program could help i reach more
sudens ineresed in naional service, oher changes ha do no require addi-
ional spending could also help accomplish his goal. Firs, Congress could change
he required percenage o work-sudy dollars ha each college mus conribue o
communiy service. Colleges currenly mus spend a leas 7 percen o heir work-
sudy dollars on sudens perorming communiy service.52 In pracice, abou 17
percen o ederal work-sudy dollarsand he same share o recipiensend up
being communiy service relaed.53 Raising he required percenage o work-sudy
dollars argeed oward communiy service o 20 percen would resul in an addi-
ional invesmen o nearly $30 million in hese ypes o posiions.
Second, Congress could aler he ederal work-sudy ormula o beter reward col-
leges commited o naional service. Te curren ederal work-sudy allocaion or-
mula inequiably disribues dollars oward expensive colleges.54 Ta is because
he ormula includes wha is known as a “base guaranee,” a promise ha colleges
will no lose dollars compared o wha hey received in he pas. Te problem is
ha hese guaranees are ied o how he ormula allocaed dollars as ar back as
he 1970s, meaning hey have no been updaed o reflec subsequen increases in
higher educaion enrollmen in he naion’s Wes and Souhwes regions, as well asaway rom he Norheas.55 A change o he ormula ha modernizes is disribu-
ion could also include a componen ha rewards colleges or using more o heir
ederal dollars or naional service posiions.
AmeriCorps awards are he oher logical source o suden suppor ouside o ederal
suden aid programs. Individuals paricipaing in AmeriCorps awards are eligible o
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receive Segal AmeriCorps Educaion Awards. Tese awards are equal o he maxi-
mum Pell Gran award and are proraed based upon he number o hours worked
in a year.56 A suden who works a leas 1,700 hours in a year can receive he ull
award o $5,730 as o he 2014-15 academic year, wih he smalles award being jus
more han $1,212 or 300 hours o service in he summer.57 Sudens who receive an
educaion award can use i o cover uure educaion coss or repay loans.
Making he embedded naional service programs described in his paper eligible
or AmeriCorps educaion awards should be done as par o a broader naional
push o increase he number o available AmeriCorps spos rom 75,000 o
250,000. Tis is a goal ha was signed ino law in he 2009 Edward M. Kennedy
Serve America Ac and would more han riple he number o available awards each
year by 2017.58 Being able o offer AmeriCorps educaion awards or he credi-
bearing service programs described in his repor would provide several benefis.
For sudens, i would mean several housand addiional dollars in suppor, which
could also reduce financial aid spending or colleges. Addiionally, i has benefisrom an accounabiliy perspecive since AmeriCorps would approve he programs.
Te one downside worh noing is ha AmeriCorps educaion awards can only be
spen on uure uiion coss or pas loan dollars borrowed. As a resul, sudens
would no be able o use heir awards o cover expenses immediaely.
For students already serving in AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to
America, or VISTA, or National Civilian Community Corps, or NCCC,
there may be ways for them to receive college credit for their training.
During the past several years, the Corporation for National and Com-
munity Service, or CNCS, has worked with the American Council on
Education, or ACE, to have training courses recommended for college
credit. This effort is being advanced through ACE’s College Credit
Recommendation Service, or CREDIT, in which faculty with expertise
in the relevant field review the content, scope, rigor, and assessments
of training opportunities that do not occur in a formal higher educa-
tion environment. If the faculty determine that the training repre-sents college-level work, they issue a recommendation for how many
credits the training should be worth at a given college; whether it
should be upper- or lower-division credits; and what majors it should
count toward. Such a recommendation makes it easier for a college
to award credits for CNCS training without having to verify eac
every piece of the course. At the same time, colleges preserve t
flexibility to award more or fewer credits as they see fit.59
ACE currently recommends seven different courses offered by CN
for credit.60 These include “Introduction to Service Learning,” whi
is recommended for three lower-division credits in human relatio
interpersonal communication, or service learning, as well as “Res
Development and Grant Writing,” which is recommended for thre
upper-division credits in communications, marketing, or fundrais
and grant writing.61
Students wishing to receive credit for these cmay purchase a transcript through ACE to send to their college. A
check with CNCS to verify that the student completed the work t
seeking credit for and then send the transcript. To date, 429 stud
334 colleges have requested credit for the CNCS courses.62
Other ways to earn credit for service
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Conclusion
Increasing service-learning opporuniies a American colleges and universiies
presens many muually beneficial opporuniies. Communiies would benefi
rom he good work o college sudens paricipaing in service, and apping
youh as a source o human capial can be a poen sraegy or posiive social
change.63 Meanwhile, research shows ha sudens who paricipae in service also
benefi in he orm o higher academic achievemen, greaer career readiness, and
enhanced leadership skills and sel-confidence.64 By giving sudens access o real-
world experiences, naional service may also help graduaes build up he ypes o workorce-relevan skills ha are so necessary o finding, securing, and hriving in
jobs and careers afer college.
Esablishing he ypes o programs ha successully blend service learning wih
rigorous academic experiences and college credi will ake work. Te ederal
governmen can and should do more o aciliae he creaion o hese ypes o
programs. Bu he insiuional examples noed in his repor demonsrae ha
he implemenaion challenges are manageable and can be overcome wih srong
commimens o service. Te experiences o hese colleges should serve as a road-
map or oher insiuions o ollow.
Likewise, he suden sories in his paper srongly sugges ha here is significan
demand or more service opporuniies. For every A’licia Williams or Phillip
Ellison, here are counless oher sudens who would benefi rom playing a
greaer role in heir communiy while simulaneously urhering heir sudies. I is
ime o make sure hey ge ull credi or doing so.
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About the authors
Carmel Martin is he Execuive Vice Presiden or Policy a he Cener or
American Progress. She manages policy across issue areas and is a key member
o CAP’s execuive eam. Beore joining CAP, Marin was he assisan secreary
or planning, evaluaion, and policy developmen a he U.S. Deparmen oEducaion. In his posiion, she led he deparmen’s policy and budge develop-
men aciviies and served as a senior advisor o Secreary o Educaion Arne
Duncan. Prior o coming o he Deparmen o Educaion, Marin served as gen-
eral counsel and depuy saff direcor or he lae Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
as chairman o he Healh, Educaion, Labor and Pensions Commitee. Marin
has appeared on PBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox. She has been cied in publicaions,
including Te New York imes and Te Washington Post . She was also named one
o he five women who shape educaion policy by he National Journal in 2014 and
has esified as an exper winess in ron o legislaive commitees.
Ben Miller is he Senior Direcor or Possecondary Educaion a he Cener. He
was previously he research direcor or higher educaion a New America, as
well as a senior policy advisor in he Office o Planning, Evaluaion and Policy
Developmen a he U.S. Deparmen o Educaion. Miller’s work has appeared
in Te New York imes , he Los Angeles imes , Te Chronicle of Higher Education ,
and Inside Higher Ed , among oher oules. He holds a bachelor’s degree in hisory
and economics rom Brown Universiy.
Shiv Rawal is a Special Assisan or he Economic Policy eam a he Cener. Prior
o joining CAP, Rawal inerned or he Whie House Domesic Policy Council’s
rural affairs eam. Rawal is a graduae o he Universiy o exas a Ausin and holds
wo bachelor’s degrees in Plan II Honors and governmen wih a minor in sociology.
Phoebe Sweet is Direcor o Speechwriing a he Cener. Prior o joining CAP,
she worked on he Hill as communicaions advisor and speechwrier or Senae
Majoriy Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). She also worked on Sen. Reid’s 2010
re-elecion campaign, serving as communicaions direcor or he Nevada Sae
Democraic Pary. Prior o ha, Swee also spen eigh years as a newspaper
reporer and columnis. Swee was raised in Maine and sudied journalism aBoson Universiy.
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Endnotes
1 A’licia Williams, phone interview with authors, August18, 2015.
2 Alexander W. Astin and others, “How Service LearningAffects Students” (Los Angeles, CA: Higher EducationResearch Institute at UCLA, 2000), available at http://
heri.ucla.edu/pdfs/hslas/hslas.pdf .
3 CAP analysis of data from the Beginning PostsecondaryStudents Study 2004:09 using PowersStats. See Nation-al Center for Education Statistics, Table ID: bekbfd4c,available at https://nces.ed.gov/datalab/powerstats/.
4 Kevin Eagan and others, “The American Freshman: Na-tional Norms Fall 2014” (Los Angeles, CA: CooperativeInstitutional Research Program at the Higher EducationResearch Institute at UCLA, 2014), p. 38, available athttp://www.heri.ucla.edu/monographs/TheAmerican-Freshman2014.pdf .
5 Caralee Adams, “Students Say College Is Not Preparing Them for Job Market,” Education Week , June 3, 2015,available at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/college_bound/2015/06/students_say_college_is_not_prepar-ing_them_for_job_market.html.
6 Hart Research Associates, “Falling Short? CollegeLearning and Career Success” (2015), p. 12, avail-able at https://www.aacu.org/leap/public-opinion-research/2015-survey-results.
7 Eagan and others, “The American Freshman.”
8 Ben Miller, “The Student Debt Review” (Washington:New America Education Policy Program, 2014), avail-able at https://www.newamerica.org/downloads/
TheStudentDebtReview_2_18_14.pdf .
9 Hart Research Associates, “Falling Short?” See p. 4, 7.
10 Adams, “Students Say College is Not Preparing Them forJob Market.”
11 Hart Research Associates, “Falling Short? College Learn-
ing and Career Success.”
12 Office of Disability Employment Policy, “Youth in Transition: Soft Skills to Pay the Bills — Mastering SoftSkills for Workplace Success,” available at http://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills/ (last accessedSeptember 2015).
13 Ty M. Cruce and John V. Moore, “First-Year Students’Plans to Volunteer: An Examination of the Predictorsof Community Service Participation,” Journal of CollegeStudent Development 48 (6) (2007): 653–673.
14 Astin and others, “How Service Learning Affects Stu-dents.”
15 CAP analysis of data from the Beginning PostsecondaryStudents Study 2004:09.
16 Joshua Young, phone interview with the authors,August 8, 2015; A’licia Williams, phone interview withthe authors.
17 Helen M. Marks and Susan Robb Jones, “CommunityService in the Transition: Shifts and Continuities inParticipation from High School to College,” The Journalof Higher Education 75 (3) (2004): 307–339.
18 Ibid.
19 Kimberly Spring, Nathan Dietz, and Robert Grimm, Jr.,“Youth Helping America, Leveling the Path to Participa-tion: Volunteering and Civic Engagement Among Youthfrom Disadvantaged Circumstances” (Washington:
Corporation for National and Community Service,2007), available at http://www.nationalservice.gov/pdf/07_0406_disad_youth.pdf.
20 Ibid.
21 Drew DeSilver, “College Enrollment Among Low-Income Students Still Trails Richer Groups,” PewResearch Center, January 15, 2014, available athttp://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/15/college-enrollment-among-low-income-students-still-trails-richer-groups/; National Center for EducationStatistics, “Postsecondary Attainment: Differences bySocioeconomic Status,” available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_tva.asp (last accessed Septem-ber 2015); Susan D ynarski, “For the Poor, the Gradua-tion Gap is Even Wider Than the Enrollment Gap,”TheNew York Times, June 2, 2015, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/upshot/for-the-poor-the-
graduation-gap-is-even-wider-than-the-enrollment-gap.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=1.
22 CAP analysis of data from the Beginning PostsecondaryStudents Study 2004:09.
23 Ibid.
24 City Year, “Our Approach,” available at http://www.cityyear.org/what-we-do/our-approach(last accessedSeptember 2015).
25 Phillip Ellison, phone interview with the authors,August 28, 2 015; NYC Service, “Be Cool—Coat NYC’sRooftops,” available at http://www.nycservice.org/op-portunities/4384 (last accessed September 2015).
26 Phillip Ellison, phone interview with authors.
27 ULink, “ULink: Integrated End-to-End Transfer As-sistance,” available at http://www.myulink.co/ (lastaccessed September 2015).
28 Smarter in the City, “Mission,” available at http://www.smarterinthecity.com/ (last accessed September 2015).
29 Tufts University Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizen-ship and Public Service, “Tufts 1+4 Bridge-Year ServiceLearning Program,” available at http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/tufts1plus4/ (last accessed September 2015).
30 Tufts University Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizen-ship and Public Service, “2015-2016 1+ 4 Fellows,” avail-able at http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/tufts1plus4/2015-2016-tufts-14-fellows/ (last accessed September 2015).
31 Astin and others, “How Service Learning AffectsStudents”; Cheryl Keen and Kelly Hall, “Engaging with
Difference Matters: Longitudinal Student Outcomes ofCo-Curricular Service-Learning Programs,” The Journalof Higher Education 80 (1) (2009): 59–79.
32 Ibid.
33 Keen and Hall, “Engaging with Difference Matters:Longitudinal Student Outcomes of Co-CurricularService-Learning Programs.”
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34 Drake Universit y, “About Drake,” available at http://www.drake.edu/about/(last accessed September2015).
35 Mandi McReynolds, phone interview with the authors,August 18, 2015.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid.
38 Service Year + Higher Ed Innovation Challenge, “Service
Year + Higher Ed Innovation Challenge (Part 1)” You- Tube, April 15, 2105, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1eeNjfAwOs; Mandi McReynolds,phone interview with the authors.
39 Mandi McReynolds, phone interview with the authors;Drake University, “Higher Ed Challenge 2015 FinalistApplications, Service Year + Higher Ed Innovation Chal-lenge” (2015).
40 Code of Federal Regulations, title 34, sec. 668.8, subtitle(k), available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/668.8.
41 Code of Federal Regulations, title 34, sec. 600.2, availableat https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/600.2.
42 Ibid.
43 Federal Student Aid, Federal Student Aid Handbook2014-2015 (U.S. Department of Education, 2014), p. 427,available at https://ifap.ed.gov/fsahandbook/attachments/1415FSAHandbookCompleteActiveIndex.pdf .
44 Ibid., p. 195.
45 Code of Federal Regulations, title 34, sec. 668.5, availableat https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/668.5.
46 Corporation for National and Community Service,“Learn and Serve America Fact Sheet” (2011), availableat http://www.nationalservice.gov/pdf/factsheet_lsa.pdf.
47 Joe Goldman, “Details of Budget CompromiseReleased,” Campaign for Stronger Democracy , April12, 2011, available at http://strongerdemocracy.org/2011/04/12/details-of-budget-compromise-
released/.
48 U.S. Department of Education, Department of EducationFiscal Year 2016 President’s Budget (2015), p. 15, avail-able at http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget16/16pbapt.pdf.
49 U.S. Department of Education, “Title III Part A Programs– Strengthening Institutions: Funding Status,” availableat http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iduestitle3a/funding.html (last accessed September 2015). This estimate isbased upon the fiscal year 2013 and FY 2014 Strength-ening Institutions competitions, which awarded nearly$15 million to programs based upon a priority forevidence. A similar structure could be used to supportnational service.
50 U.S. Department of Education, “Programs: FederalWork-Study (FWS) Program,” available at http://www2.
ed.gov/programs/fws/index.html (last accessed Sep-tember 2015).
51 U.S. Department of Education, Student Financial As-sistance: Fiscal year 2016 Budget Request (2015), p. 13,32, available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget16/justifications/p-sfa.pdf.
52 U.S. Department of Education, “Programs: Federal Work-Study (FWS) Program.”
53 CAP analysis of financial aid data from U.S. Depart-ment of Education, “Federal Campus-Based ProgramsData Book 2014,” tables 6, 23, and 45, available athttp://www2.ed.gov/finaid/prof/resources/data/databook2014/databook2014.html (last accessedSeptember 2015).
54 Robert Kelchen, “Exploring Trends and AlternativeAllocation Strategies for Campus-Based Financial Aid
Programs” (South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall Un iversity,2014), p. 5, available at http://www.aefpweb.org/sites/default/files/webform/39th/Kelchen%20Campus-Based%20Aid%20Paper%20for%20AEFP.pdf .
55 Ibid.
56 Corporation for National and Community Service,“Amount, Eligibility, and Limitations of EducationAwards,” available at http://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps/segal-americorps-education-award/amount-eligibility-and-limitations-education (last accessed September 2015).
57 Ibid.
58 Corporation for National and Community Service,“Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act One Year Later”(2011), available at http://www.nationalservice.gov/
sites/default/files/documents/10_0421_saa_implemen-tation.pdf .
59 Kara Gwaltney and Deborah Seymour, phone interviewwith the authors, August 19, 2015.
60 American Council on Education College Credit Recom-mendation Service, “The National Guide to CollegeCredit for Workforce Training,” available at http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=browse.getOrganizationDetail&FICE=300187 (last accessed September 2015).
61 Ibid.
62 Personal communication from Kara Gwaltney, directorof CREDIT evaluations, American Council on Education,August 24, 2015.
63 Youth.gov, “Benefits,” available at http://youth.gov/
youth-topics/service-learning/what-are-benefits-service-learning (last accessed September 2015); IncaA. Mohamed and Wendy Wheeler, “Broadening theBounds of Youth Development: Youth as Eng agedCitizens” (New York, NY and Chevy Chase, MD: The FordFoundation and The Innovation Center for Communityand Youth Development, 2001), available at http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED459089.pdf. For specificexamples of how national service programs can helplocal and national organizations with capacity, seeCorporation for National and Community Service,“Serving Communities: How Four Organizations areUsing National Service to Solve Community Problems”(2011), available at http://www.nationalservice.gov/pdf/servingcommunities_11_30.pdf.
64 Cruce and Moore, “First-Year Students’ Plans to Volun-teer”; Astin and others, “How Service Learning AffectsStudents.”
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