Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.98
Liaison Audrey McSain
Submission Date Feb. 26, 2021

STARS v2.2

Lehigh University
EN-13: Community Service

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.86 / 5.00 Carolina Hernandez
Director of the Community Service
Community Service
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Does the institution wish to pursue Part 1 of this credit (student participation in community service)?:
Yes

Total number of students:
5,003

Number of students engaged in community service:
2,750

Percentage of students engaged in community service:
54.97

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (community service hours)?:
Yes

Total number of student community service hours contributed annually:
50,000

Number of annual community service hours contributed per student:
9.99

Does the institution have a formal program to support employee volunteering during regular work hours?:
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s program to support employee volunteering:

Lehigh partners with United Way for their Day of Caring to release employees and allow them to volunteer in the community.


Does the institution track the number of employee community service hours contributed through programs it sponsors?:
No

Total number of employee community service hours contributed annually through programs sponsored by the institution:
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Website URL where information about the institution’s community service programs is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Community service was greatly impacted by COVID-19 and the resulting institution shutdown in March 2020. Due to this impact, the data reported above is copied from Lehigh's 2018-2019 STARS submission to be representative of a normal year. The following notes are applicable to the copied data.

Part 1: data was not copied from PRE-5 but rather is just full time undergraduate numbers from Fall 2018 (credit indicates graduate students can be excluded).

Part 3: the institution only tracks student hours.


Community service was greatly impacted by COVID-19 and the resulting institution shutdown in March 2020. Due to this impact, the data reported above is copied from Lehigh's 2018-2019 STARS submission to be representative of a normal year. The following notes are applicable to the copied data.

Part 1: data was not copied from PRE-5 but rather is just full time undergraduate numbers from Fall 2018 (credit indicates graduate students can be excluded).

Part 3: the institution only tracks student hours.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.