For example, the American Sign Language GISP works with the deaf to collaborate on an ASL interpreted theatrical performance. The Swearer Center for Public Service recruits students to donate their time and energy to a variety of Rhode Island community groups. I work at Textron Chambers Charter School, and PUDL is the only extracurricular activity offered at the school. Without this Brown program, students would be confined to academic offerings, without any means of expressing views of community and national issues. This brings us back to the argument that it is not only the duty of higher education.
Lectures are another way to engage discussion of usefulness in the world outside college.
Last week was Jump Into Politics Week, and a series of speakers and panels implored students to vote and make their voices heard in elections and local politics. A society that places trust in its college graduates to be useful and to reflect a good reputation of both society and the graduate s institution of higher learning is valuable only if the university makes an attempt in good faith to encourage values of community involvement. Only with active attempts to engage political, social, and moral discussion can graduates actually go out into the world with the experience and skills to impact society. They must advocate a life that enhances the repute of the individual and the institution. The most feasible institution for such a statement to be made in is the University.