The CSL in a Nutshell

Monthly Updates for Students,

from the KU Center for Service Learning

As a KU student, you have a choice to register to vote in your home community or here with your campus address. Our ALL IN to Vote tool can help you navigate the process. This site provides you with tools to pledge to vote, register to vote, confirm your voter registration, determine how and where to vote, and understand what is on your ballot.

Complete, Update or Confirm your Voter Registration.

Student Support Highlight:

Community Service Capacity Awards

Funds are available to KU students to help address barriers and challenges to service participation and engagement with and in communities. Students who may experience barriers (e.g., transportation, childcare) or hardships (e.g., finances to purchase service project materials, missed days of work for service) in supporting community engagement and service activities may apply for a Community Service Capacity Award through the Center for Service Learning.

The CSCA is a need-based service award that may support an award of $300 or less based on the amount requested to address the level of need presented in the application. Accepting an award may impact any existing financial aid package. Before accepting this award, students are responsible for contacting the Office of Student Financial Aid to determine how it may affect your total financial aid award package.

For additional information,

please contact the Center for Service Learning.

Community Service Spotlights:

Quindaro Townsite Project Work Day- September 30

Jubilee Cafe- Tuesday and Friday Mornings

LEAD UP Student Guide/Mentor- Schedule TBD

Center for Supportive Communities Volunteer Mentor- Ongoing

H180 Youth and Family Programming Volunteer- Ongoing

Shawnee County Parks and Recreation: Planting Tulips at Ted Ensley Gardens- October 1-15

Youth Football Program Game-day Support - September 10- November 5 Sign Up to Volunteer

Send Love Project Letter Writing Volunteer- Ongoing

Explore more service opportunities at volunteer.ku.edu.

Service Learning Opportunity:

Certificate in Service Learning

We invite you to consider earning a Certificate in Service Learning. Obtaining your certificate involves taking classes, engaging in volunteer work, and reflecting on your service learning experiences. Once you have earned the certificate, it is acknowledged on your official academic transcript.

There are a multiple steps to complete the Certificate in Service Learning. make sure you visit our website to learn more about where you are in the process or where to start if you are just beginning! The deadline to apply to graduate from a certificate in any semester can be found on the Office of the University Registrar's calendar as "Undergraduate Application for Graduation Deadline."

You can apply to graduate from the Certificate program as soon as all of the requirements are completed, even if that is before you graduate from KU!

If you have questions about your personal progress toward

completion of the Certificate in Service Learning, please email our Certificate Coordinator at serve@ku.edu.

Open Office Hours

Friday, October 7, 2022

11-2pm

Kansas Union, Alcove E

Want to get involved in community and civic engagement? Have questions on available opportunities and how to find them?

Stop by the CSL’s monthly Open Office Hours in the Kansas Union, Alcove E. We are available to answer your questions about community service, civic engagement, and more.

Student Org Spotlight:

Student United Way

Student United Way is a new community service and advocacy organization on the KU campus—in partnership with The United Way of Douglas County, we unite to make meaningful differences in our community through research, service work, and advocacy.

Interested in joining us? Contact csl@ku.edu.

Civic Engagement Spotlight:

National Voter Education Week

National Voter Education Week is a nonpartisan digital voter education campaign that equips voters with the tools, information, and confidence they need to cast their ballots. During the week of October , people in every community across America strive to help their fellow voters learn to find their polling location, understand their ballot, make a plan to vote in person or by mail, and much more.

To learn more about how you can get involved on our campus, make sure to follow the Center for Service Learning on social media! Look out for daily updates and how you be part of making our campus and community more educated about the process and power of voting.

Follow the CSL on Social Media for Updates!

Upcoming Events + Activities

September 20: National Voter Registration Day

September 23, 4-5:30pm: Red Hot Research: Trans* Studies

The Commons | RSVP for the Event

September 27, 6-7:30pm: Civic Engagement 101- Know Your Voting Rights

Loud Light, Lawrence Public Library, League of Women Voters | LPL Auditorium + Zoom

September 28, 7-8pm: Wellness in our Democracy: The Threat of Disinformation and Misinformation

The Commons, KU School of Law, KU School of Journalism and Mass Communication | Register for the Event

October 3-7: National Voter Education Week

Learn More About NVEW

October 6, 12-1pm: Educate and Act: Indian Child Welfare Act

Center for Service Learning, Emily Taylor Center Women and Gender Equity, Office of Native American Initiatives, The Commons | Register for the Event

October 7, 11am-2pm: First Friday Open Office Hours

Center for Service Learning | Kansas Union, Alcove E

October 11, 6-7:30pm: Civic Engagement 101- "We the People of Kansas...": The Story of Kansas's Founding Documents, 1820-2020

Lawrence Public Library, League of Women Voters | LPL Auditorium + Zoom

October 19, 2-4pm: 2022 Science Career Fair

Kansas Union 5th Floor | Learn More

October 20, 3-4:30pm: Disability Culture Writing Workshop

KU Libraries, The Commons | Learn More

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Center for Service Learning

The University of Kansas

Strong Hall, Room 150

1450 Jayhawk Blvd.

Lawrence, KS 66046

csl.ku.edu | csl@ku.edu | 785-864-0960

Through community and campus partnerships, the Center for Service Learning advances service-learning, community-engaged scholarship, and civic engagement that fosters a commitment to participation for a diverse, just, and global society.