Abbreviated Student Voluntary Services Timeline

1969    SVS elected first student officers.

            SVS received a grant from Sears-Roebuck for $22,000.

            SVS purchased its first van.

1978    Student Voluntary Services separated from Religious Programs.

1987-88 Wheelchair ramp was added to SVS house November 11, 1987.  

1989-90 25th anniversary of SVS.

1991     Reorganizing of the area placed SVS under the area of Student Activities.

1992-95 SVS was awarded a 3 year grant from the Commission on   National and Community Service totaling $98,000.  TEACH (Tutoring to Educate Adults and Children) was developed  using the grant funds.

1995     A name change for Student Activities was implemented to  better describe the mission statement for the area.  The name became Leadership & Service Programs.

1995-98 Indiana Campus Compact awarded a grant to SVS to fund a  Service Learning Coordinator position.  The Service  Learning Coordinator served as the liaison between the  academic education faculty and SVS with a grant from ICC of  $17,495 (1995-96), $16,422 (1996-97) and $15,490 (1997-98).

1999-2000 Lutheran Brotherhood funded SVS for student-led service projects of $300 ($150 for Leaf Raking, and $150 for Beds and Britches).

Spring 2001 SVS purchased another 15 passenger van after paying off the cost of another vehicle, increasing the transportation pool to 1 mini-van and 3 15-passenger vans.

Summer 2001 The Office of Leadership and Service Programs was re-organized into two distinct offices: the office of Student Organizations and Activities and the office of Leadership and Service Learning.  Both offices remained in the same locations, sharing the existing space in L-1.  SVS continued to be advised out of Leadership and Service Learning.

Fall 2001 BSU, along with universities and non-profits around the country, responded to a NHTSA report regarding the safety of 15-passenger vans, eliminated 15-passenger vans from the transportation pool, requiring SVS to begin utilizing all 7-passenger vans and 5-passenger cars for transportation purposes.

Summer 2002 The office of Leadership and Service Learning relocated into its new office space in the former bookstore of the Student Center, now known as SC 118.  SVS moved to 118 from L-19, along with LSL.

Fall 2002 SVS developed a partnership with the CAPE initiative, resulting in a sizeable increase in the number of sites utilizing transportation, and requiring new strategies to address the need.  SVS continued to maintain 4 7-passenger vans and 2 5-passenger cars behind the Student Center.  Additionally, a chartered shuttle bus would transport a group of drivers and volunteers (and program coordinators) out to the transportation yard to pick up 2 additional 7-passenger vans and 4 additional 5-passenger cars.  These volunteers would travel to their service sites, but return the vehicle to the SVS office, and trade keys with the second afternoon shift of volunteers, who would return the vehicles to the transportation yard and take a waiting shuttle bus back to the Student Center to complete their shift.