1. Double Bull’s-Eye: Serving Students and Communities Lisa Weiss The Ohio State University

2. Introductions ► Name ► Your university ► Role on campus ► Reason you came to this session

3. What You Can Expect ► Goals ► Needs of today’s students ► Who are our neighbors? ► Effective community partnerships ► How to create meaningful experiences ► Making it happen ► Questions and answers

4. Goals of Session ► To engage participants in a discussion about how student affairs professionals can meet the needs of both today’s students and the community partners near their campuses ► To provide techniques for creating appropriate and meaningful volunteer experiences for our students ► To allow participants to work together to design volunteer experiences and to write job descriptions for these experiences that will work on their campuses

5. Discussion: Who are today’s students? ► Who are the students with whom we are working today? Where are they from? What are some of their past volunteer experiences? ► What are some of the challenges of having students volunteer in our communities? What are some of your techniques for overcoming those challenges?

6. Who Are Today’s Students: Some Facts About Millennial Students ► Group oriented ► Not used to doing much work, high grades come easily but pressured to do well ► Overly involved with very involved parents  Kids who grew up playing multiple sports and playing 2 instruments with “helicopter parents” ► Political views are more conservative and more liberal ► More likely to want to do service and to have had past service experiences

7. Campus Neighbors – What’s Happening in Ohio ► School district's budget woes may dictate shorter day  Columbus Dispatch, Thurs. 1/26/06 ► Funding, staffing woes predicted  Columbus Dispatch, Sun. 1/29/06 ► Norwood's fight for survival  Cincinnati Enquirer, Sun. 1/29/06 ► Neglect persists for North Toledoans  Toledo Blade, Sun. 1/29/06 ► Mastering the juggling act: Working mothers develop strategies for balance in their lives  Cincinnati Enquirer, Sun. 1/29/06 ► Clevelanders express discontent, worry about neighborhoods  Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sun. 1/29/06

8. Characteristics of Successful Campus/Community Partnerships ► Founded on a shared vision and clearly articulated values ► Beneficial to partnering institutions ► Composed of interpersonal relationships based on trust and mutual respect ► Multidimensional: they involve the participation of multiple sectors that act in service of a complex problem

9. Successful Partnerships (continued) ► Clearly organized and led with dynamism ► Integrated into the mission and support systems of the partnering institutions ► Sustained by a “partnering process” for communication, decision making, and the initiation of change ► Evaluated regularly with a focus on both methods and outcomes

10. Creating a Meaningful Experience ► Be cognizant of student schedules – how much is too much? ► Is transportation an issue? ► Where are students developmentally? ► What kind of support can you or your colleagues provide? ► Which campus partners work best with students?

11. Job Descriptions ► Make them fun! ► List special qualifications ► Include time commitment required ► Give motivating reasons to volunteer ► Offer to hold information sessions ► Do not forget contact info

12. Key Words in Creating Volunteer Job Descriptions ► Achieve ► Elevate ► Believe ► Inspire ► Become ► Creativity ► Illuminate ► Reveal ► Teach ► Provide ► Ideas ► Lead ► Choose ► Challenge ► Excel ► Energy ► Grow ► Justice

13. Make It Happen! Think of a community organization or local school and write a job description that would work for your students. Think about developmental issues, time commitments, transportation and why students would want to volunteer at this site.

14. Meet Them Where They Are ► Email ► Word of mouth ► Hang flyers in places where students wait in line ► Contact different types of student organizations

15. Conclusion ► Questions and Answers? ► Thank you!

16. References ► DeBard, R. (2004). Millennials coming to college. New Directions for Student Services, Number 106, Summer 2004. ► Jacoby, B. et al. (2003). Building partnerships for service-learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.