Hey Chris,

In addition to student engagement, student union, and student government, it may be worth checking with the Institutional Research, the Registrar, and/or Student Affairs departments to see if they are tracking any data or if they have suggestions for how to track the data. It may be that data have to be assembled from multiple sources (e.g., the registrar tracks service that's part of academic courses, the athletic department tracks its relevant data, etc.)

The STARS credit does allow for data gathered by survey or a representative sample. Using data from the Greek community only wouldn't be representative, but the institution doesn't have to track every single hour of community service in order to determine figures for this credit.

STARS intentionally used the same definitions and data that are used by the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll (http://www.learnandserve.gov/about/programs/higher_ed_honorroll.asp). When meeting with other potential data holders on campus, it would be worth asking if the institution participates in this program and, as a result, already has the data compiled.

Hope this helps,

The STARS Team

Instead of having to go through different groups on campus, at Unity College we have the office of Community- Based Learning. This office is in charge of community partnerships. It connects classroom, extracurricular, club and individual activities to the outiside world. It is a good way to keep tract of all the community service that goes on at Unity. Here is the link to our office.

http://www.unity.edu/academic/CommunityBased/CommunityBasedLearning.aspx