Freshman Connections 2011-2012
Connect with Your Community Passport
10,000 Hours of Service Campaign
Guidelines and Incentives
Goal:
The goal of the “Connect with your Community Passport” is to encourage students to experience community events and activities as well as make connections between these events and class material. We are also hoping to generate 10,000 hours of community service through the generous actions of Ball State students. Get involved today!
Eligibility:
All 2011-2012 first semester Ball State Freshmen are eligible.
What you need to get started:
All you need is a “Connect with Your Community Passport” and a desire to learn, serve, and explore! Most of the eligible events are free of charge.
Incentives:
All first semester freshmen are eligible to submit their cards into a drawing for Ball State items including blankets, sweatshirts, t-shirts, flash-drives, and more. There will be one drawing:
- Drawing December 6th for completed passports
How to Document your Attendance:
There are a number of ways to document your attendance. Please contact your professor for information on how events for class credit need to be documented. Typically an essay or reflective writing is required.
Residence Hall Events: Your Residence Hall Director, Academic Peer Mentor, Living-Learning faculty member, or academic advisor can initial your passport for official Learning Community Events.
Events with Assigned Seating: Your ticket will serve as documentation.
Open Seating events with Programs: Your program will serve as documentation.
Other Events: Many events will announce how attendees can obtain documentation. If you are unable to obtain documentation, a one-page typed write-up will serve as documentation. The write-up needs to include the following points: a detailed description of the event, a reflection on what you thought about the event and how it influenced you, 3 questions that you would have liked to have asked the presenter.
You can also use any event with Student Voluntary Services. See their website for details. http://cms.bsu.edu/CampusLife/SVS.aspx
Submitting Your Passport:
Drawing:
Submit your passport with documentation to Melinda Messineo in North Quad 200 by December 1st 5:00pm. If you are submitting your card for course credit you can still submit your card to the final drawing. Please let your instructor know that you would like your name forwarded to freshman connections captains. Your instructor will keep the documentation. Your names will be added to the other eligible names. Good Luck!
Eligible events:
- Any event selected by a FC faculty member for class credit purposes is eligible. The faculty member will designate how attendance will be documented.
- Any film from the 2011-2012 Ball State University film series.
- Any residence hall event selected by the teams.
- Athletic events (1 per passport)
- Dance, theatre, fine arts performances
White River Clean-up
September 10, 2011
8:00am –1pm
Initial Pickup: Noyer Circle (Williams Hall) 7:45am
Destination: Westside Park
10,000 Hours of Service Campaign
- Tailgate Clean-up, Sept 24
- Homecoming Parade clean-up, Oct 8
- 20th Annual Leaf Raking, Saturday, November 5
- 20th Annual Angel Tree, begin November 14th and end on (or around) December 2
- The Second Saturday Service Programs, Sept (9/10), Oct (10/8), November (11/12), Dec (12/12).
- Harvest Soup Kitchen, a coordinated program every day from 8:30 - 11:30am.
- Second Harvest Food Bank program scheduled for Mon & Wed mornings from 8:30 - 10:30
- Westside Park rejuvenation, Oct 13
- Take Five Community Outreach (Take 5) Nov 19
Homecoming Community Service Day
Wed, Oct 5
*If you would like to know if an event is eligible, contact Melinda Messineo, mmessine@bsu.edu.