Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	83.87
Liaison	Yolanda Cieters
Submission Date	March 1, 2024

STARS v2.2

Seattle University
EN-13: Community Service

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	3.52 / 5.00	Yolanda Cieters Associate Director CEJS

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Part 1. Percentage of students participating in community service

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 1 of this credit (student participation in community service)?:

Yes

Total number of students:

7,121

Number of students engaged in community service:

3,561

Percentage of students engaged in community service:

50.01

Part 2. Community service hours per student

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

Yes

Total number of student community service hours contributed annually:

120,000

Number of annual community service hours contributed per student:

16.85

Part 3. Employee community service program

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:

The Community Service Leave Policy is an effort to encourage and support staff (non-academic staff) to embrace the mission, vision and values through service. Seattle University offers Community Service Leave to participate, with pay, in community service activities that occur during regularly scheduled work hours.
More information can be found here: https://www.seattleu.edu/hr/benefits/time-away/community-service-leave/

Does the institution track the number of employee community service hours contributed through programs it sponsors?:

Yes

Total number of employee community service hours contributed annually through programs sponsored by the institution:

972

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s community service programs is available:

https://www.seattleu.edu/CCE/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

NOTE 1: "Total number of students" and "Numbers for students engaged in community service" are for academic year 2022-23. They include undergraduate, graduate and Law school students:
--2,661 students participated in a community engaged learning course. NOTE: This is an estimate. Data collection was suspended during the pandemic but it will begin again this academic year.
--800 students (estimate) participated in volunteer and/or student employment in the community (2022-2023)
--100 students (estimate) participated in community engaged work-study (2022-2023)

NOTE 2: No. of student community service hours is an estimate for the same time period (academic year 2022-2023). We don’t officially track these numbers but we estimate a total of 120,000 hours

NOTE 3: No of employee community service hours is for FY23 (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023).