Report of the President – January 2012
The Bounce Back

The importance of understanding people
Community service was the hallmark of his college experience.

Joe Paluch, right, and other Tulane volunteers prepare and paint raised garden beds as an Outreach Tulane project. Community service has played a major role in Paluch’s college experience. (Photo from the Tulane Center for Public Service)

To receive his Community Service Scholarship, Joe Paluch needed to complete at least 200 hours of community service. That’s a lot of time and effort to put on top of the course load required to earn his bachelor’s degree in political science, but Paluch met that amount and bettered it by 50.

Paluch says his community service work inspired him to become an educator. Amid his busy schedule, Paluch found time to run the Home for Homework project, an after-school tutorial program located in several local community centers throughout the city. The experience played a major role in his desire to become a member of Teach for America.

“I knew it was important to show students they were worth my time and energy each week,” Paluch says.

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