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What is Community Based Attachment?
Why Community Service?
Why is it a Graduation Requirement?
CBA Guidelines
CBA Rights and Responsibilities
Forms
What is Community Based Attachment?
Community Based Attachment is the application of one’s skills, gifts, and resources to enhance the quality of life of people in need. Students engage at the end of their 1st Year undergraduate course in volunteer activities that focus on providing services off-campus needed by different sectors of the community. 200 hours minimum must be completed at one service site.
Why Community Service?
- Enhance faculty capacity for research and teaching;
- Help students apply their skills and knowledge to societal problems;
- Help students build capacity for learning and leadership;
- Help students develop personally, professionally and academically;
- Help students understand themselves, their community and their role.
Why is it a Graduation Requirement?
Strathmore University is a leading not-for-profit private university operating in Kenya, which aims at serving the Kenyan society to the best of its ability. Part of its mission is to provide service to Society. It is in this spirit that the Community Service requirement was created and each student is required to serve others. Students are encouraged to discuss with their advisors, early in their university experience, the options for fulfilling the Community Service requirement.
Aim
- Create an awareness of the needs of others and to develop more compassionate human beings who are able to respond to these needs
- Acquaint students with career and professional-skill-volunteering possibilities in the nonprofit sector.
Overview
At the end of their 1st year of undergraduate study, students participate and complete a minimum requirement of 200 hours at one service site. They must:
- Collect an Introduction Letter from the Faculty Help desk.
- Download and fill in the both sides of the Details Form and present it to the Attachments Office prior to commencing your attachment using the available channels indicated.
- The CBA List highlights where students have completed their attachments previously, but it is not exhaustive. If you have an organization not on the list, kindly consult with us before you begin your attachment.
- Download the Report Guidelines and present the Attachment Report to the office 2 weeks into their 2nd year course work.
Course Code
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Faculty/School
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Bachelors’ Degree
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Code
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Commerce
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Commerce
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CBA 1200
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Leadership and Management
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CBA 1200
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Finance & Applied Economics
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BBS Actuarial Science
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CBA 1200
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BBS Finance
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BBS Financial Economics
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Information Technology
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Business Information Technology
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CBA 1200
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Informatics
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CBA 1200
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Telecommunication
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CBA 1200
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Tourism & Hospitality
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Tourism Management
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CBA 1200
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Hospitality Management
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CBA Guidelines
The CBA experience provides students the opportunity to:
- Interact with people from various cultures and life situations and address societal issues that challenge the community.
- Engage with non-profit organizations.
The CBA experience:
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- separate from service required by internship or another course;
- directly beneficial to the community;
- done for and under the auspices of a nonprofit organization accredited by the University.
DOES NOT INVOLVE
- compensation;
- counting hours spent sleeping, traveling or training;
- direct political campaigning;
- participating in events such as fundraisers where the student does not interact directly with the non-profit organization.
- working for any private individual or family not directly associated with a nonprofit agency is not eligible
CBA Outcomes
- Acquire skills in learning from experience (to observe, ask questions, synthesize, problem solve)
- Recognize and address the needs of the community.
- Add a positive value to your university experience.
- Develop personally.
- Build meaningful relationships with individuals in the community.
- Believe that you have the ability to make a difference.
- Develop an understanding and compassion for people from various cultures and life situations.
- Experience the satisfaction of doing something worthwhile for a community.
- Learn to use your skills, talents, and knowledge to benefit others.
- Better understand an organization’s structure, goals and importance to the community.
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CBA Rights and Responsibilities
Students
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RIGHTS
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RESPONSIBILITIES
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- Expect clear and appropriate assignments
- Experience fulfilling work
- Receive orientation and training
- Expect informed involvement with agency
- Encounter safe and healthy working conditions
- Have access to individuals to go to for help
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- Set up a service experience in a timely manner
- Be persistent in your communication
- Be honest about goals, skills, limitations and motivations
- Fulfill your commitment
- Maintain confidentiality
- Cooperate with staff
- Be flexible and open-minded
- Stay informed
- Ask for help when needed
- Understand your role
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Community Service Partners
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RIGHTS
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RESPONSIBILITIES
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- Expect support for your site and its personnel
- Expect students to be responsible, flexible, cooperative, and to fulfill their commitment.
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- Provide fulfilling and challenging tasks
- Require students to attend orientation and training
- Provide safe and healthy working conditions
- Offer adequate supervision and help when needed
- Complete paperwork (service log and evaluation)
- Inform Attachments Office of concerns or issues
- Expose students to issues related to your site
- Reflect with students on what they are learning from their service experience.
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Forms
Details Form
Students are asked to submit this completed form before commencing attachment to inform the Attachments of their service placement. It asks the students to describe and determine goals for the service experience. It must be signed by the Student, Site Manager and the Attachments Office. This form must be submitted to recognize these service hours as part of the community based attachment requirement for graduation.
You can download the details form here.
Report Guidelines
Student comments are solicited at the end of the Attachment regarding the service, service site and the Attachments Office. The Guidelines will contain the Service Log or Daily Diary of a record of hours served (200 hours minimum) and specific activities each visit. Form is typically kept on-site. If a site requires a separate sign-in, the student should ask who will fill out the Service Log.
You can download the report guidelines here.
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