The Yale Herald - January 26, 2007 - Elis get course credit for New Haven service: "Elis get course credit for New Haven service
BY SARAH FOOTE
BENJAMIN BOKSER/YH
Paul Bass, JE ‘82, encourages his students to volunteer for non-profits in New Haven in lieu of taking a midterm.
y graduation, a typical Yale student has devoted thousands of hours to both studies and extracurricular community service. For most Elis, these two pursuits remain apart: Students attend class during the day and volunteer for outside organizations on their own time. But an innovative program known as the Community Based Learning Initiative is blurring this distinction by offering the unique opportunity to earn course credit for community service research."
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