Posted on 09/08/2009 10:27:01 PM PDT by tsomer
"Now the college utilizes resources from the Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement to make the effort as efficient as possible. The Bonner Center student scholars are charged with organizing the 1,000-plus freshmen into service areas, and then coordinating yearlong activities from which students can meet their requirements."
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Central office... what is that something like the Home Office from the movie Battlefield Earth?
Invoke the 13th Amendment and tell them to shove it.
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The meetings are as well attended as “RA floor meetings”, and the people I know from TCNJ all graduated without taking part.
TCNJ has the highest standards of admission of any NJ state undergrad Uni/College. The kids who get in are smart, but once in the college, like many other highly selective colleges, has a ton of fluff courses, many of which will fill this “requirement”.
And as a professor once told me, “there is a huge difference between Communitarianism and Communism.”
My son did exactly that when his high school attempted to force "service" as a graduation requirement. My son took it to the school board and to talk radio via Rick Roberts and Roger Hedgecock in San Diego. The requirement was rescinded. My son graduated from Mira Mesa High School in San Diego in June 2001.
Well done. I wonder if that would fly in Obama’s USSA?
It's time to fine out.
While making every effort to fight the requirement, students should “volunteer” for jobs normally done by docile, overpaid union slugs. I can’t see the unions supporting this idea.
Great idea!
I don't see much to distinguish one from the other. Communitarianism is just another disguise for Communism.
Here's another of the paragraphs that caught my attention: "But at The College of New Jersey, the 1,300 incoming freshmen welcomed last week also discovered another change: mandated community service, better known at the college as community engaged learning (CEL)."
The three indicators we ought to worry about: 1. They're calling it something else:
"...we don't look at this as charity; we're learning from those who are being served," Anderson said.
"We've never called it community service..."
2. Expansion and centralization:
"Students come together during the college's orientation week and are grouped together based on their housing locations.
They then choose as a group what service area they will work on throughout the year.
There are more than a dozen issues ..."
3. It's a stated requirement, analogous to a basic history surveys of the past:
"If the students don't put in the time, they don't graduate.
I've got no problem with doing community service. There are many clubs and organizations that students can get involved in to help others in the local community and elsewhere. However, when the colleges make it part of the curriculum it becomes a) a time-waster (I'm spending tens of thousands of dollars for my kid to get an education) that takes up time that should be channeled into academics; and b) politically-correct pablum (again a waste of parents' hard-earned money).
Yes indeed!
Involuntary Servitude by any other name is SLAVERY.
It’s time to find out.
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