For my third paper, I decided to do something a little
different. Instead of choosing a problem within my major, I decided to choose
something to help the community. For my communications class, we were assigned
to do a community service and present about if afterwards. I thought that it
was pointless because I felt that I should not be forced to do something I do
not want to do but since it was a grade, I had to. Our group decided on the
Andre House which is a soup kitchen as well as a help office for the homeless. I
live in West Phoenix so I see homeless people every day and never thought much
of it. After participating in the Andre House, it opened my eyes to the lack of
volunteers they receive. It also taught me to be very grateful after hearing
what these individuals have gone through. So my proposal for the 10,000
solutions is that Arizona State University students should be required to
complete 10 community service hours throughout an entire school year. Although
it may not seem like a lot, if you think of the amount of students ASU has
enrolled, the numbers add up. It helps students learn life lessons as well as
help those who are less fortunate around us. The way it can be enforced is
through account holds, like the ones they have for freshmen student advising.
You can remove this hold after you show your counselor that you have completed
the certain amount of hours. I know that many high schools now require
community service hours as a part of the criteria for graduation which I think
we should be a part of. My projected audience is to faculty, staff, and
students of Arizona State University.
I really enjoyed reading your topic proposal for paper 3. I feel that this would be an excellent thing for students here to do. One thing that I was thinking of while reading was even though you can put holds on people's accounts to monitor 70,000+ students every year will be quite difficult. You mention high schools doing that but it is mostly reserved for seniors and juniors so it is slightly easier for it to be monitored. Maybe it should be required for freshman to do which will be like the holds for seeing your adviser. Anyway I enjoyed you topic and reasoning behind it so I hope you can do it.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading about this idea and think that it is a great way of going about it. I definitely agree with the fact that it can teach life lessons. I do agree with Austin about how it would be difficult to track all of the students, but to combat that maybe you can argue that it be added to all the major maps and treated as any other course. It can be made into an actual class type setting and be like another type of hybrid class (two days a week doing some sort of community service for an hour, and one face to face or online meeting where you turn in the proof and talk about what you learned). It can even be made into a major based community service. For example, someone going into the teaching field can be required to volunteer at a school in the targeted age group, or someone studying to be a doctor can volunteer at a hospital or doctor’s office. Overall, this is a very good idea and I think it should definitely be put into effect not only in ASU but in schools all over the United States.
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