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VSLC On-line Registration ECU students must register with the VSLC before beginning service activities. Registering covers students under the VSLC’s free liability insurance while doing service. It’s quick and easy to register. 1.
Log into OneStop.
2. Click on Tools and look for Academic Planning.
Distance Education (DE) Students Students participating in distance education service-learning courses must also register with the VSLC before beginning service activities as well as adhere to the service-learning cut off date. See page 3 for more information on these topics. For additional resources and more information on service-learning and
distance education, visit the VSLC website.
3. Under Academic Planning, click on the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center link. 4. Fill out the form.
What is service-learning?
5. Click submit ONCE. A confirmation will appear at the top of the screen when the process is complete.
For more information on service-learning, please visit the Service-Learning Orientation presented by VSLC staff.
Where can DE students serve?
VSLC Programs The VSLC sponsors a number of student and staff led programs that impact the community. For more information on these programs, contact the VSLC or go to www.ecu.edu/vslc.
Adopt-A-Grandparent - A student-led program designed to foster meaningful relationships between ECU students and residents of a local retirement community through one-on-one interaction. For more information, please email ECU.AAG@gmail.com.
The VSLC staff suggests using a number of resources to find your service site. Contacting the agency and scheduling your service hours is your responsibility, but the VSLC staff will provide additional support if needed.
DE Service Sites DE students are encouraged to consult their local newspapers and networks to assist in the search for a service site. Below are links to national organizations with local affiliates. If you are having difficulty finding a site, please VSLC for assistance.
Blood Drives - 1 in 4 people will need blood in their lifetime. Give the gift of life by donating at one of the many oncampus blood drives listed at www.ecu.edu/vslc. Help ECU reach its goal of 3000 units for 2011-2012!
Break Trips - Organized by student leaders, these hands-on service trips coincide with ECU’s Fall Break and Spring Break. Contact Austin Robey at robeyr@ecu.edu for more information.
Campus Kitchen at ECU - An on-campus program that recovers food from campus dining halls, turns it into balanced, nourishing meals, and delivers those meals to the people in our community who need it most. ECU was the first public school in North Carolina to have a Campus Kitchen!
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United Way of America Volunteer Match Idealist Serve.gov Feeding America American Red Cross Boys & Girls Clubs of America
ECU~WRITES - ECU~READS/COUNTS is a tutorial program for emerging readers and counters (K-2), and ECU~WRITES is a pen pal program at two local elementary schools. See page 20 for more details. Fairytale Boutique - A program designed to help young women in Pitt County attend the prom regardless of their financial circumstances. The VSLC collects new and gently used prom and formal gowns, shoes, and accessories that are distributed at no cost to young women in need so they can be the Belle of the Ball.
Give & Go - A campus-wide program to encourage and provide a means for students to donate clothing, household items, and food to be redistributed to those in need. Each year in April, Give & Go boxes are placed in residence halls to collect items for the community. National Day of Service - MLK Day of Service (January 16, 2012). Celebrate service by participating in this large, one-time event. Registration and information coming soon to www.ecu.edu/vslc. Pirate Playtime - A student-led service initiative that places volunteers at various after school programs in the Greenville community to facilitate games and activities for children in attendance. Friday afternoons from 3 pm until 6 pm. For more information, please email pirateplaytime@gmail.com. Holocaust Awareness Day - Holocaust Awareness Day, includes recitation of Holocaust victims’ names from 6 am 6 pm, followed by a remembrance luminary. Students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome to participate in the reading. Luminaries, baring the names of Holocaust victims, are assembled and placed throughout the University Mall, and lit at dusk by volunteers.
Documenting Service Hours Document your service hours on a service time sheet. You are responsible for documenting your service hours and completing all areas of the sheet. Remember to have the person supervising you at the agency sign your time sheet. Return your service time sheet to the VSLC via fax or as as attached document. It is very important to return your completed time sheets to the VSLC. This way, the VSLC staff can track you service hours and provide you verification letters for employment purposes, scholarships, and graduate or professional school.