Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 68.91
Liaison Susan Powers
Submission Date April 10, 2024

STARS v2.2

Clarkson University
EN-13: Community Service

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.08 / 5.00 Susan Powers
Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment
ISE
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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:
3,719

Number of students engaged in community service:
575

Percentage of students engaged in community service:
15.46

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:
7,562.25

Number of annual community service hours contributed per student:
2.03

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:
During the Covid lockdown the university created a policy allowing staff to volunteer a set number of hours per week with local nonprofits.

Clarkson also has a policy and procedure for employees who are volunteer emergency responders. This policy states that Clarkson will provide paid leave to employees who are volunteer emergency workers when they need to respond to an emergency call.
https://bookstack.clarkson.edu/books/operations-manual/page/om-839-volunteer-emergency-responder-policy

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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Optional Fields 

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:
Data on community service collected through our KnightLife student engagement and organization software. We know that this system does not yet collect all data. The numbers for students and hours are known to be very low, but this is the best reliable information we have. Honors program requires community service as well - 200 students.

Student Life typically has 5,000 hours submitted from around 375 students. During the 2022 calendar year, approximately 200 Honors students submitted 2563.25 hours.

Information on how community service in integrated in the Honors Program can be found here: https://www.clarkson.edu/academics/honors/curriculum-honors-program

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