Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	66.74
Liaison	Justin Owen
Submission Date	July 22, 2024

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Weber State University
EN-13: Community Service

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.39 / 5.00	Bonnie Christiansen Academic Sustainability Coordinator Sustainability Practices and Research Center

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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:

17,394

Number of students engaged in community service:

2,537

Percentage of students engaged in community service:

14.59

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:

87,536.47

Number of annual community service hours contributed per student:

5.03

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:

WSU has a service leave policy that allows benefit-eligible employees to take up to eight hours of service leave.

The policy can be found at: https://www.weber.edu/ppm/Policies/3-66_Service_Leave.html

The John A. Lindquist Award is given annually to a current WSU faculty or staff person who has demonstrated sustained and outstanding commitment to mentoring WSU students in learning through civic engagement. The award publicly recognizes the time and energy staff and faculty devote to enhancing student learning and developing community partnerships. Grants are also provided to fund civic engagement activities proposed by employees through the Alan E. and Jeanne N. Hall Endowment for Community Outreach.The objective of the Alan E. and Jeanne N. Hall Endowment for Community Outreach is to address the needs of disadvantaged individuals, families, and groups within Ogden and the surrounding communities by enhancing their educational, economic, social, psychological and cultural well-being.

Grant information can be found at: https://www.weber.edu/ccel/grants.html

Each year, WSU recognizes the work of outstanding faculty, staff, students, alumni and community partners with six distinct awards: Community Engaged Faculty Member, Community Engaged Staff Member, Community Engaged Student or Student Group, Community Engaged Staff Member, Committed Community Partner, Community Engaged Alumnus

Presidential awards for community engagement: https://www.weber.edu/ccel/awards.html

The Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) also offers the WSU Service Day of Remembrance during Homecoming Week.

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:

288

Optional Fields

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

https://www.weber.edu/ccel

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

**The number of students included in this headcount is reflective of the total headcount at WSU 2022-23 minus the concurrent enrollment students (those still attending high school) who do not attend classes on campus. Any hours that concurrent enrollment students earned were removed from the total hours earned. The concurrent enrollment students were also subtracted from the total number of students engaged in community service for the 2022-23 school year.

The Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) works to engage students, faculty, and staff members in direct service, civic engagement, and community research to promote civic participation, build community capacity and relationships, and enhance the educational process. The CCEL Office provided this data per the 2022-2023 CCEL report used to determine student service completed.

The 22-23 CCEL report: https://www.weber.edu/ccel/annual-report.html

Staff and faculty contributed services hours are a combination of hours from 2022-23 for Service Leave and WSU Service Day of Remembrance. Staff/faculty contributed hours are reported through payroll as Service Leave and the Day of Remembrance hours are on page 13 of the CCEL Annual Report.