Honors Service Specifics

Service to Others throughout the Ages

"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." - Herman Melville
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives." - Albert Schweitzer
"If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in [only] his own case will become a selfish prig." - President Woodrow Wilson
"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." - Helen Keller
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." - President John Kennedy
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Service and the Honors Program

The Honors Program believes that service to others is a valuable part of the learning experience. Historically, honors students do off-campus community service as a substitute for their off-campus learning requirement. However, honors students give back to the Millikin community too. Students help with Presidential/Honors Scholars Interview Days and do other valuable activities that keep the Honors Program running smoothly. They also service multiple on-campus organization in numerous ways. They stay involved and make a difference. They reflect upon and learn from the service that they do.

Honors Service Policies

Honors Scholars begin their service activities at Millikin with a service project associated with their IN183 Honors University Seminar course. Other expectations for all honors students are as follows:

• freshman year: service in IN183 first semester, second semester: minimum of five hours service either on or off campus, a portion to the Honors Program
• sophomore year: minimum five hours of service per semester either on or off campus, a portion to the Honors Program (Presidential Scholars/Honors Scholars interviews)
• junior year: minimum 10 hours of "off campus" service per semester, in addition to a minimum of 4 hours of service per semester to the Honors Program
• senior years: minimum 10 hours of "off campus" service per semester, in addition to a minimum of 4 hours of service per semester to the Honors Program

Exemptions: students who choose or are required to take a course that counts as "off-campus learning" may choose to count that course toward the total 40 hours of "off campus" service required during the junior and senior years. Also, see Alpha Phi Omega below.

All service hours are to be turned in at the end of each semester to the Honors Office on the Honors Service Record sheet, with date, activity, number of hours, and contact person phone number.

Honors Scholar (frosh/sophomore) Service Form (excel file)

JMS/Presidential Service Form (excel file)

Off-campus Service Options/Links

Alpha Phi Omega - national, co-ed, service fraternity that will automatically fulfill your honors off-campus service requirements if you remain an active member during junior/senior years.

Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Central Illinois

HomeWork Hangout

Growing Stronger, Sexual Assault Center

Dove, Inc.

Macon County RSVP Opportunities

Sangamon Valley Volunteers - working with the environment
This group coordinates volunteer workdays and monitoring opportunities in Macon and DeWitt counties. For more information please contact Norm Jensen at (217) 429-3400 or nhj0211@aol.com or Sarah Ansell at (217) 423-7708 or sansell@maconcountyconservation.org.

Rock Springs Center, Macon County
Service contact: Sarah Ansell at (217) 423-7708 or sansell@maconcountyconservation.org