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02 Nov 2018
The push for volunteerism in universities during the mid-2000s was a positive educational initiative, not a nefarious plot.

There's another aspect of this that I want to talk about, and that is, in the mid-2000s, volunteerism was really hot. It was a really hot thing. And I know this because I went to the University of Missouri and I worked at the Office of Service Learning. And that was a department within the university where my... And within the Department of Defense. That's absolutely true. My entire job, because there was funding for service-based curriculum, was to go through the entire catalog of courses at the University of Missouri and try and find ones that could have a volunteer aspect added to the course. Yeah, yeah. There's an easy application of volunteering five hours a week at a clinic or something like that. Not hard. You just take people's blood pressure from time to time. Exactly. The university got grants and things like that in order to weave volunteerism into the curriculum of classes where it was applicable. And I know because I was involved in creating the catalog of courses for the service learning department that it wasn't something nefarious. There were many times where I was stretching. I was like... Well, maybe this could, you could volunteer at a museum. And they're like, that's not really applicable to the course. Anybody could volunteer at a museum, Dan! It was hot in the sense of, like, this idea, this paradigm. Well, it wasn't the entire university. Just in the service-loading department. But within that department, there was this idea of, we have an opportunity to get people to help where they can, volunteer their time, which is a positive thing for everybody, and they'll also get college credit from doing those things. It's not some evil thing.