Earn a $1,000 Award
The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) has an exciting opportunity for you to serve the community and earn a $1000 education award.

By becoming a CCE Fellow, Wartburg students will enroll as part-time AmeriCorps members. Each part-time member will complete 300 hours of service over the course of the academic year. Upon successful completion of the program, each student would receive a $1,000 educational voucher from the Federal government to use toward payment of student loans, tuition, or graduate school.

The CCE is offering a menu of options to students for how they can complete the 300 hours. For instance, if you complete an internship with a non-profit organization for one credit (which involves 140 hours as part of that internship) those hours would be subtracted off the 300 hour total. Completing the class Leadership Theories and Practice (ID 315) and working with the Community Builders program will count for 40 hours. Additionally, participating in a Winter/Fall/Tour week service trip would count for another 20-50 hours. Moreover, completing Wartburg classes that involve service-learning projects as part of the curriculum, individual volunteerism activities, and hours structured through working with local school systems (tutoring, mentoring, facilitating activities) would count as well. In addition, up to 60 hours of reflective activities can also be included, and several opportunities will be available for students to learn more about themselves, our community and American society.

Ultimately, students need to complete 300 total hours over the course of a calendar year (beginning September 1, 2007) to receive the $1,000 award. However, over the course of a student’s lifetime you can only get two of these awards so they need to be used cautiously.

If you are interested in this program or have further questions, contact Bill Soesbe in the CCE at bill.soesbe@wartburg.edu.