How to manage your involvement record
The Involvement Record (IR) is an unofficial transcript of your co-curricular involvement, highlighting your out-of classroom experiences such as events you have attended, organizations you have joined or held positions in, self-reported experiences you have submitted and service hours. This can be used to apply for grad school, provide speaking points for job interviews, and to showcase your leadership experience.
Customize your involvement record
- Click on your profile in the upper right when you log into Get Involved.
- Select "Involvement Record."
- As you scroll through your document, you can add and sort positions, organization memberships, experiences, reflections and service hours, and decide what you do and do not want to show on your personal record. Clicking "Change Layout" at the top allows you to determine in what order you would like these different involvement activities to appear, if you would like them to appear at all. While you can choose which of your activities appear and in what order, note that the general customization of your involvement record is determined by your campus administrators and cannot be changed.
- Click "Save."
- Click "Print/View PDF" at the top to view and download a copy of your IR.
Adding reflections
In Get Involved, users can add reflections to past memberships and event attendance to be configured to appear on the Involvement Record. To include reflections on your record, make sure you select the checkbox for "Showing Reflections" at the top of the Involvement Record management page.
Memberships
- Click your profile, then select "My Organizations."
- There are tabs for Current and Past Memberships, select the tab you wish to view.
- Scroll to the organization you wish to add a reflection. All positions within the organization will have a space to enter a reflection.
- Enter your reflection and save.
Why add a reflection?
Membership reflections are a great way to record what you did and accomplished as part of an organization. Think about highlighting leadership opportunities, events your coordinated, milestones you helped accomplish, etc.
Events
- Click your profile, then select "Event History."
- Find the event you want to add a refelection for, the next to the Reflection heading, click the pen icon.
- Add your reflection and save.
Why add a reflection?
Event reflections are a way to look back on what you learned at an event you attended (maybe this event was a lecture or learning experience) or to showcase your leadership in the coordination of an event you hosted.