‘U.S. News’: Students Volunteer for Credit

More and more college students are getting class credit for doing community work, reports U.S. News & World Report (September 11). In 1998, 30 percent of undergraduates took a “service-learning” course that required them to volunteer, according to researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles.

“Research suggests that building service into the curriculum — and providing time for reflection on the experience through writing and class discussion — help students fully understand and retain course material, become better writers, and, ultimately, snare higher grades,” the magazine writes.

The article is available at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/articles/stvolunteer.htm.