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

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

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.


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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