Student Volunteers Are Worth Billions

College students are more civically engaged than they were five years ago, and the time they spent volunteering last year was worth $4.45-billion to the communities they served, according to a survey report released in July by Campus Compact, a nonprofit group that advocates for student involvement in public service.

Forty-four percent of the Campus Compact's 950 member colleges responded to the survey, which found that, in 2004, more than 30 percent of students regularly did community

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