Wilfrid Laurier University
EN-12: Community Service

Laurier’s Co-Curricular Record (CCR) is as an institutionally recognized chronicle of student engagement and student leadership involvement. Its purpose is to encourage and recognize meaningful student involvement, maximize and support intentional learning that occurs as a result of student involvement, complement the academic experience by encouraging further involvement and purposeful reflection, and to serve as a search tool for students wishing to connect with a multitude of involvement opportunities at Laurier. It is its own record of community service achievement The CCR provides students with a validated and authenticated record of their involvement during their university career, and provides them with a tool to share and communicate their co-curricular involvement to potential employers, on graduate school applications and for grants and bursaries. This record of involvement complements the academic transcript by providing students with a tool to help them identify, evaluate and reflect on the learning that occurred as a result of engagement in co-curricular activities.

Time period is from September 2012 to April 2013. Community service participation has been calculated using the number of for-credit students participating in Laurier's Centre for Community Service Learning and the number of students who participated in not-for-credit hours using the Co-Curricular Record. A total of 1368 students participated in Community-Service Learning over the Fall 2012 and Winter 2013 semesters. This information was provided by Rebekah Rempel, the Community Service Learning Coordinator. Community Service-Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities for the common good. Number of students gathered from the Co-Curricular Record are those who have participated in 'Laurier Community Service Initiatives". These include groups such as LSPIRG, the Student Philanthropy Council, SBE Laurier Day and the Welcome Centre. The Co-curricular record is a student self-reporting tool, whereby students must add their positions by a specified date every year (after which they are verified and approved by staff members). These numbers only include students who have added these positions to their CCR, so it does not reflect the exact number of hours actually completed by students, as many students forget/do not add their activities before the deadline. There were a total of 250 approved positions under Laurier Community Service Initiatives for the 2012/2013 academic year. CCR information was provided by Bailey Gross, the Student Leadership Coordinator.