Begins Higher Education with Community Service Project Scores of new Jacksonville University students will begin their college careers at JU on Tuesday, Aug. 24, by descending on the Woodland Acres neighborhood for a community service revitalization project.
Classes begin the following day.
The ambitious neighborhood project was the brainchild of the New Student Orientation Team, the all-student committee coordinating the orientation program for the new students. Neighborhoods Department and Senior Services Office, and the Health Department. The project was inspired by the University's 50-hour community service requirement. As many as 200 students are expected to participate in the project, according to junior Jo Dawn Cheves, community service chair of the orientation team. Other students will clean up the grounds around the senior citizens center and health department offices on Acme Street, while still others will organize the filing system and care for children at the health department.