Regarding ways of assessing how students benefit from cocurricular jobs, programs, and activities, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) may be of some service. On question asks about hours spent doing cocurricular things, and specific questions target particular kinds of activities (tutoring, service learning, diversity, etc.). Paul Presson can crunch the numbers to see how participation in those activities matches up with overal student satisfaction and academic engagement. (Some of NSSE's benchmark categories for academics look a lot like our college-wide learning goals.) Of course, if there's a strong negative correlation between particpating in a certain activity and levels of academic engagement, that would be good to know, too :)
I've included questions on this year's CLA to see if there's any corellation between particular kinds of cocurricular activities and high writing/critical thinking scores. Those numbers won't be available until August, but let me know if you'd like to see them for next year's annual report.
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