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Study: College Freshmen's Interest in Community Service Hits 25-Year High
January 30, 2006Comments (0) | Add | E-mail this to a friendIn its annual "The American Freshman" survey released Wednesday, UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute reported that first-year undergraduates' interest in performing community service and assisting the needy has surged, a trend to which many Hillel professionals can attest.
"What we're looking at this year is an exponential increase in interest in alternative spring breaks," said Jeff Rubin, the Washington-based spokesman for Hillel, a Jewish campus organization.
He said Hillel recently sent 135 students to help with flood repairs in Biloxi, Miss., and had plans to dispatch 300 more in March, along with arranging trips with social justice-related goals to Israel, Central America and parts of the former Soviet Union.
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