One consistant problem that I see with my community is the ability and outlet of getting involved. Although community service is a major part of Virginia Tech, many students find it hard to find things to get involved with. Usually they have to go through many websites and flyers until they can find oppurtunies to perform community service. The origin of this problem comes from two issues....
1) Many students want to perform community service, but in order to do so they usually must apply to a certain group. Additionally, most of these groups are closed and only accept a limited amount of people (not a majority of the students). This discourages people from joining.
2) As an individual it is hard to find big projects going on, unless you are involved with some sort of group.
My solution is to contact several different community service groups, as well as the listserv that sends out e-mails to all the students across campus, and ask them to advertise their community service projects that they perform and allow other students to join. I am also going to contact the coordinators of social groups across campus and suggest they publish a manual of some sort at the beginning of the year, which they hand out to all the students, to inform everyone of how to join clubs and become more involved. Hopefully, with more contact more students will want to get involved.
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It sounds like you are asking other people to create things, but I can't tell from reading this what kinds of things you are proposing that you create for the final project. What genres are we talking about?
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