Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 83.26
Liaison Megan Litke
Submission Date Feb. 12, 2014
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American University
PAE-23: Community Service Hours

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.00 / 6.00 Joshua Kaplan
Sustainability Outreach Specialist
Office of Sustainability
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The number of student community service hours contributed during a one-year period:
254,792

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Total number of students, which may exclude part-time, continuing education and/or non-credit students:
9,728

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The website URL where information about the institution’s community service initiatives is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The number of degree seeking students is from the 2012-13 Academic Data Reference Book, Table 1 (http://www.american.edu/provost/oira/Academic-Data-Reference-Book.cfm). Non-degree and visiting students were subtracted from Fall 2012 full-time enrollment. Part-time students were not included. Number of students engaged in service taken from Center for Community Engagement and Service 2012-2013 Annual Report which is published in July following the school year. The Washington College of Law community service hours and participation for 2012-13 were provided by David Steib of the WCL Office of Public Interest (http://www.wcl.american.edu/publicinterest/). WCL volunteering includes pro bono legal work to underserved communities in WCL clinics and activities conducted by the WCL Equal Justice Foundation.

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