ASU and Public Service

Since the organization that I did my internship at is Arizona State (ASU) it actually has a lot to do with public service. I mean if you think about it, they are offering a public service to anyone who qualifies and it’s called higher education. Especially with President Crows New American University model even more students have the opportunity to go to college. But ASU does a lot more than just offer education to students who otherwise might not have had the opportunity to go. The have research professors ho offer cutting edge research to a wide verity of fields of study which inevitably help the public in some way or another. They also donate money to a wide verity charitable causes and even offer countless scholarship to students as well. To me one of ASU core values is public services. However if we look deeper than just ASU and look at the college specifically where I interned Public Service and Community Solutions. With our numerous research centers that also offer consulting to the public. For instance Lodestar Center consults with Nonprofits from all over the country and I believe even some from other parts of the world. The college also offers one of a kind staff members specifically for students with in our college. Sometimes public doesn’t have to mean the general public it could just mean a population of people. When we think of public service organization like a nonprofit say Make A Wish it is not that they help everyone but that does not mean they aren’t doing a public service. Back to our one of a kind staff. The college our college has a staff member who specifically works with only our students on anything to do with money and college.  He is an amazing resource that not many students use. He can help point you in a direction of scholarships, how to sign up for government finical aid and so much more. So all around whether we look at the university as a whole or the college that I interned with specifically Public service is embedded in what it does to the core.