The Service Transcript Program helps Rockhurst students build a service transcript during their college careers.  Participating in the program is simple: 1) stop by the Center for Service Learning and pick up forms; 2) complete the forms for each community service or service-learning project in which you participate — remember to get the form signed by a supervisor, instructor or project leader; 3) hand in the forms to the Center for Service Learning, and 4) ask the Center for Service Learning for a service transcript.  Service transcripts may come in handy when completing scholarship applications, graduate school applications or during internship or employment interviews.

NEW!

Now it is easy to request service transcripts online (Your Student ID# is all we need so please don't include your SS#). Center for Service Learning staff will receive the request, print the transcript and have it waiting for you to pick up at the Center for Service Learning, Van Ackeren Hall room 208.

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Voluntary community service may be a one-time, short-term project or a lengthy, on-going commitment by a group or an individual.  Community service is not compensated monetarily (i.e. money, room, board, etc.).  Community service may be conducted at Rockhurst, through a service project, at a church, school, community center, neighborhood, hospital, nursing home, or a nonprofit organization. Examples of voluntary community service: tutoring a young student, working on a Habitat for Humanity house, Finucane Service Project, Safe Trick-or-Treat, coaching an athletic team, Scouting ecology badge workshop, participating in a blood drive, AIDS Walk, fundraising to donate to another organization, serving dinner at St. James Soup Kitchen. 

SERVICE-LEARNING
Service-learning is a combination of community service and academic study.  Through the assignment of a project that addresses community needs, students learn from community members and develop leadership skills while practicing theoretical knowledge gained in class.  Everyone benefits from service-learning:

1. Community organizations have help meeting needs that may otherwise go unmet.
2. Students connect academic concepts with hands-on experience.
3. Students gain the opportunity to see local people and specific problems as a microcosm of larger social issues, and to examine their roles, values and contributions they can make now and in the future.
4. Examples of service-learning: Freshmen in Business, Freshmen in Science, service-learning projects organized through Rockhurst courses.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES NOT INCLUDED
Not all student activities are service activities.  Here are some examples of student activities and honors that are NOT included on a service transcript: singing or reading at Mass, orientation leader, Student Ambassador, fundraisers for student organizations, playing on a sports team, participating in a club or organization, resident assistant, Sentinel staff, yearbook staff, acting in a play, singing in a chorus, service required by Disciplinary Committee, work study, most clinical projects, paid internships.  If you have questions, please contact the Center for Service Learning.

Download a copy of the service transcript form.