Reporting Your Hours
Forms are now available to turn in your PVSA Time Sheets.
SFA has a demonstrated commitment to service in the community. In 2010-2011, the SFA community completed more than 95,000 hours of service. In 2010, SFA was included on The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the fourth year in a row. This annual recognition celebrates the university community's commitment to service. SFA is also a proud partner with the President's Volunteer Service Award, which recognizes individuals for their service within a 12-month period. Each year, hundreds of individuals and organizations receive this honor at SFA.To receive the President's Volunteer Service Award, students, faculty, staff, and student organizations must submit time sheets to the Office of Student Affairs Programs each year. We collect time sheets in November and March. All individuals and groups that qualify for the PVSA honor are invited to the ODK Leadership Awards Banquet in April.
The PVSA levels of recognition are (hours are counted over a 12-month period):
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Bronze
- Young Adults (age 15-25) - 100 to 174 hours
- Adults (26+) - 100 to 249 hours
- Groups (student organizations) - 200 to 499 hours
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Silver
- Young Adults (age 15-25) - 175 to 249 hours
- Adults (26+) - 250 to 499 hours
- Groups (student organizations) - 500 to 999 hours
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Gold
- Young Adults (age 15-25) - 250+ hours
- Adults (26+) - 500+ hours
- Groups (student organizations) - 1000+ hours
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President's Call to Service Award (for individuals)
- 4,000 hours over a person's lifetime
The Office of Student Affairs Programs offers electronic time sheets that are available to download. These Word documents can be saved to your computer and used to track your hours, and then emailed to sfavolunteers@gmail.com in November and March to receive credit toward your PVSA honors.
We have changed the format of the Individual time sheet to make it more accessible. Forms are due March 9, 2012
Service Partners
The Office of Student Affairs Programs has built relationships with many local community agencies that utilize student volunteers. There is a great need in the Nacogdoches community for volunteers and SFA students are an integral part of fulfilling this need!
All of these agencies have volunteer opportunities available for SFA students and potential opportunities for service learning project partnerships. Click below to review our listing of service partners.
Service Events
In addition to connecting students with off-campus partners for service experience, our office provides on- and off-campus events throughout the year designed to get students involved in service and giving back to the community. Every two weeks during fall and spring semesters, an e-newsletter is sent out to our volunteer database to advertise upcoming service opportunities through our office and off-campus agencies. To have your event included in the newsletter, please fill out our submission form. To add yourself to our mailing list, please email sfavolunteers@gmail.com. $0Students in Service
SFA has been chosen to receive five Texas Campus Compact Students in Service spots for this upcoming year. SFA is one of nine universities in Texas chosen to participate in this program. SIS participants will contribute 300 hours of service toward a mentoring project at The Martin Center in Nac ISD, as well as selected service projects. Upon completion of the 300 hours, the SIS participants will receive a $1,175 education award.
One spot is still available in the Students in Service program. To apply, contact Jamie Bouldin, project manager, at jfbouldin@sfasu.edu for more information.Alternative Spring Break 2012
The Alternative Spring Break program provides a way for students to travel during Spring Break and provide service to a different community. Each year, students apply and interview for spots on the team. In March 2012, we are taking a group of 16 students and two student team leaders to Long Beach, Mississippi, to work with the Boys and Girls Club, a food bank, and a beach preservation project.ASB provides these students valuable experience in teamwork and meaningful community engagement. Students learn about the climate and culture of the destination city during pre-trip meetings, and are responsible for planning trip activities and working together to solve problems.
Previous destinations have included New Orleans, La. (2010) and Memphis, Tenn. (2011)Want to go on a future Alternative Spring Break? Come back to this page next summer for the application!
