Community and Civic Service

Community and Civic Service

Write a Personal Statement (of 300-500 words, or about one typewritten page). This statement will be used not only for evaluating your eligibility for admissions, but also for potential consideration for certain College scholarships. Use our electronic Personal Statement Form, included with the Online Application. Or prepare and mail a typed, one-page essay to the Office of Admissions. Choose one of the following topics: 1.Describe yourself as a leader, including your personal leadership style, ethics, and values. Explain what leadership roles you’d like to pursue in college or in your profession. 2.Explain why community and civic service are important in today’s society. Tell us about your own volunteer service and your community and civic activities. 3.Identify the three or four personal values that are most important to you. Explain how you try to live out those values in your daily life. 4.Describe a unique talent, interest, or passion of yours. Explain how you would like to develop that talent more fully while in college. 5.A range of academic interests, personal prospective, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe how you would bring diversity into the Newberry College community or describe an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you. 6.Choose a topic that has importance to you but is not covered in the suggestions above.

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Community service refers to an activity done by an individual or groups of individuals as a donation of service for the people that live within that environment. Community service may not necessarily be voluntary service so it should not be confused with community service. It is an important activity and is performed for a host of different reasons like courts may demand it in lieu of, or in addition to, other criminal justice sanctions. At times, in lieu of military service, the government may encourage it as a part of citizenship requirements.

Civic service is slightly different from community service……………….

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