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the Community Service Hours Form
Cincinnatus Service Hours should now be submitted to the Admission,
Scholarships and Financial Aid office on the 3rd floor of the new
University Pavilion.
Cincinnatus Scholarship and Darwin T. Turner Scholarship recipients are
required to complete 30 hours of community service each academic year.
Students are encouraged to use our office as a resource to find meaningful
service opportunities.
 Cincinnatus
Scholarship
Darwin
T. Turner Scholars Program
BASE
(Brothers and Sisters Excelling)
SCIP
(Student Community Involvement Program)
Cincinnatus
Cincinnatus Guidelines
Community service is defined as "Those services designed to improve
the quality of life for community residents (general public), particularly
low-income individuals, or solving problems related to their needs"
(National and Community Service Act of 1990).
Services include areas such as health care, childcare, literacy training,
education, social services, and neighborhood improvement. These diverse
service opportunities provide meaningful, personally rewarding and academically
relevant ways for Cincinnatus scholars to fulfill their service requirement.
Cincinnatus scholars must perform 30 hours of community service in the
Academic school year from September to June.
Service performed must take place at a non-profit agency unless a request
is made to the Center for Community Engagement before the service takes
place.
Students are limited to 20 hours of on-campus community service.
Service hours performed on-campus for which the University would normally
pay a wage will not count towards the community service requirement. Your
scholarship stipend would then be subject to taxation under IRS regulations
(IRS Publication 520, 1998).
To ensure that on-campus service can meet the 30-hour requirement, on-campus
service must involve a program, project or service that is open to the
general public. Examples of appropriate on-campus service include:
 College
ambassador programs serving prospective students
Honors
Program activities for incoming students
The
Cincinnatus Scholarship Competition event day
Bearcat
Bound activities
Admissions
Office tours and campus visit programs.
Students need to return the community service hours report form to the
Cincinnatus/ Financial Aid office in the new University Pavilion by the
end of each quarter (December 9, March 17, and June 7, 2002). A representative
of the agency or organization where the service was performed must sign
the hours report form as verification of service performed.
Darwin
T. Turner Scholars Program
The Darwin T. Turner Scholars Program focuses on academic excellence, financial assistance, positive social
interaction, cultural enrichment, and student leadership development for the University of Cincinnati's student
of color population.
To learn more about the historyand requirements of this program, visit the Darwin T. Turner Scholars Program
website at www.eps.uc.edu/turnerwev2001/default.html
BASE (Brothers
and Sisters Excelling)
Student
Community Involvement Program (SCIP)
Designed through the Department of Psychology, the SCIP program allows students to receive academic credit for
volunteer work they provide to community service agencies and organizations. Click here
for current information on the SCIP Program.
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