We are also fortunate to have the services of two graduate assistants who are experienced in volunteering and in working for local agencies, as well as having a good understanding of service learning and citizenship education. Given the existing proactive, effective infrastructure and generous spirit within the community, and the resources, ingenuity, and willingness to help of Purdue faculty, staff and students, there seems no doubt that together we can build a whole new level of effective partnership. To do this, we do need input from as many sources as possible. Or simply contact a Task Force member or supporter with your questions, concerns, or information, or advice. Together Greater Lafayette and Purdue University can become synonymous with effective partnership, in the context of healthy communities, rigorous scholarship, and enriched education.
Different universities operate volunteer and service-learning activities in different ways.
But it is clearly important to have a major student-originated dimension to these activities. Liz Hubbard, a Task Force member, Director of the Lilly Endowment Retention Initiative s Summer Start program, and a graduate student in the School of Technology, is leading the creation of a student organization that would address this need. The Task Force will also complete the series of six Evening Sessions with three sessions during the months of January, February and March. The three speakers also met with a mix of campus and community members at an informal lunch at Hillenbrand Residence Hall on November 6. Kendall Lankford, Associate Director of the Indiana Campus Compact, made a site visit on November 20, 1999.