This digest summarizes a full length report of the same title (HE 024 794) which discusses contemporary college students' apparent lack of understanding of citizenship and how it relates to positive career pursuits. A proposal is made to make students more aware of both the need for and the benefit of socially responsible citizens, and for engaging in volunteer service at the national level or as part of the undergraduate experience. The report discusses such programs as they relate to higher education including the role universities should play, the characteristics and desires of the contemporary college student; the level of financial and volunteer support currently exercised; student attitudes toward volunteering, and the appropriateness of national service programs currently under consideration in Congress. (JB)