About AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency for volunteering, service, and civic engagement. CNCS engages millions of Americans in citizen service through its AmeriCorps and Senior Corps programs and leads the nation’s volunteer and service efforts. For more information, visit www.nationalservice.gov.
SAU+VISTA
An AmeriCorps VISTA program is being established at Southern Arkansas University toward the goal of poverty alleviation through college degree completion courtesy a grant from the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS).
Over a three year period, the SAU+VISTA project will seek to meet the following goals:
- Identify poverty-related barriers among current and future students; reduce barriers that prevent college completion.
- Advise, coach, mentor, and shepherd students in landing their first job post-college.
- Create more efficient processes for encouraging service among college students.
- Inspire and actively encourage the next generation of students to pursue a college degree.
The SAU VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program currently consists of 15 yearlong VISTA members and varying amounts of VISTA Summer Associates.
- VISTA members serve full-time for a period of 12 months assisting organizations that help eradicate poverty.
- The AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associates program offers the opportunity to become engaged in a community through a VISTA project for a period of 8 to 10 weeks during the summer.
