RockServe is SRU’s digital community engagement platform that serves as a single-stop location for SRU students, faculty, staff, and off-campus community members to browse and register for service events and opportunities. RockServe benefits students in three main ways:
First, it serves as a one-stop, online location where students can easily find and register for volunteer events and opportunities on campus and in the community. This makes finding volunteer opportunities easier than ever and prevents you from having to independently research community organizations and events on your own. We’ll be doing the work for you to compile all of these opportunities on RockServe.
Second, RockServe facilitates long-term engagement by allowing students to “Join” an organization’s volunteer networks for more meaningful, long-term engagement throughout your four years at SRU. For instance, if you really enjoyed volunteering with a particular organization, RockServe makes it extremely easy to stay up to date on that organization’s upcoming events and directly message volunteer coordinators to build rapport and make a more lasting impact on that organization.
Third, RockServe empowers students to electronically track their service hours and the impact of their service by logging an impact on RockServe. After adding an impact, your hours can then be electronically verified by those who oversaw your service or by instructors of your service-learning courses. Any impacts you log will also be documented on your “Impact Summary,” which is a service transcript that formally presents all of the impacts and activities you’ve participated in that you can download to share with grad schools or future employers.
Verified service hours provide testament to each student’s cumulative service transcript on RockServe; quantifying impacts to display community engagement and civic growth in support of professional applications, resumes, or certifications, as well as for purposes of institutional recognition of students’ service and community engagement. Verified service hours promote reciprocity and integrity by legitimizing community voice as the primary verifier of students’ fulfillment of service at community-based sites.
The OCEL's RockServe Street Team is an ongoing resource to support you with any RockServe-related questions. You can contact us at rockserve@sru.edu.