Community service in the transition: shifts and continuities in participation from high school to college.

From: Journal of Higher Education | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Marks, Helen M.; Jones, Susan Robb | Copyright information

Continuing a decade-long trend, findings from recent annual surveys of first-year college students have documented their participation in community service as high-school seniors at record high levels (Higher Education Research Institute, 1999, 2000, 2001). Eighty-one percent of the 2000 respondents reported volunteering during senior year, although only 24% expected to continue their volunteer work in college. Because other recent data indicate that 64% of undergraduates actually d...

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