Prospective Members should contact:
Devon Fliss or Lynne Dial
Washington Campus Compact
Western Washington University, MS5291
516 High Street
Bellingham, WA 98225-5996
Phone: (360) 650-2044
Fax: (360) 650-6895
e-mail: cc-help@wwu.edu
Students in Service is a Washington Campus Compact (WACC) AmeriCorps-affiliated
Education Award program that supports and promotes the engagement
of higher education students in their communities by offering
Education Awards to those who participate in community service,
service-learning, or civic engagement activities. The Students
in Service program strives to develop a regional network of student
leaders committed to serving and strengthening local communities
in partnership with pre-school through college educators and community-based
organizations. For more information please visit the website at
www.studentsinservice.org.
Enrolled members can serve in positions that fit within any of
the five focus areas identified by AmeriCorps: education, the
environment, human needs, public safety, and homeland security.
Appropriate service activities would include but are not limited
to: tutoring or mentoring in schools or preschool programs, participating
in service-learning courses or certain internship/practicum programs,
working with environmental projects or at community service agencies,
serving as a service-learning coordinator on their campus, or
a variety of other ways that are of personal and/or scholastic
interest. Higher education students who are volunteering, have
a State or Federally funded, service-related Work Study position,
or have a non-paid, service-related academic internship or independent
study should apply!
