Community service among a panel of beginning college students: Its prevalence and relationship to having been required and to supporting "capital"

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 884-900

  Griffith, James ^a  

^a National Center for Education Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

capital supports; college students; community service; prevalence; rate change

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956489252     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764009338218     Document Type: Article

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