Requirements for Student Community Service Hours

USL students complete written reflections about how their service with a marginalized population relates to their academic coursework. In order to be successful in these assignments, they must be involved in activities in which they directly engage with the population served by your organization for the majority of their service hours.

USL STUDENT INTERNS MUST:

  • Engage in unpaid DIRECT community service (at least 60% of service-hours), interacting with the public or population served (see table in next section and note that this requirement is significantly relaxed for Spring 2021)

  • Serve a population in need or the greater good of our community (targeting disadvantaged communities or populations as much as possible)

  • Support programs that are either free or offered on a sliding-scale fee

  • Gain a complete knowledge of your organization, mission, the population you serve, and how their service positively impacts that population and the greater good of our community

  • Not be assigned clerical, general office, or administrative assistant-type tasks

See Service Internship Requirements webpage for examples of service activities.