FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
March 3, 2010
Contact:
Elizabeth Blevins, Director, Office of Communications
Office: (740) 351-3810; FAX: (740) 351-3179; Cell: (740) 464-4854
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E-mail: eblevins@shawnee.edu
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Last fall the day before Fall Semester, nearly 500
Shawnee State University students pick up T-shirts to get
ready to volunteer for the day.
Shawnee State University on the President’s Honor Roll
for Community Service
For the second consecutive year, Shawnee State University
has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community
Service Honor Roll administered by the Corporation for
National and Community Service.
The
Corporation oversees the Honor Roll in collaboration with
the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, Campus Compact and the American Council
on Education.
“This is such
an honor for us – and for our students,” Dr. Rita Rice
Morris, SSU President, said. “Last year, nearly 1,200
Shawnee students donated their time to community service. To
pass on this value of service to incoming residential
students, we kicked-off our fall semester with Shawnee Gives
Back and about 500 of our students donated time to help with
30 different service projects and community agencies.”
Nationally,
college students make a significant contribution to the
volunteer sector. In 2009, 3.16 million students performed
more than 300 million hours of service, according to the
Volunteering in America study released by the Corporation.
Each year,
the Corporation invests more than $150 million in fostering
a culture of service on college campuses through grants
awarded by its programs – the education awards that
AmeriCorps members receive at the conclusion of their term
of service to pay for college and through support of
training, research, recognition, and other initiatives to
spur college service.
Honorees are
chosen based on a series of selection factors including the
scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of
student participation in service activities, incentives for
service, and the extent to which the school offers academic
service-learning courses.
SSU’s
selection to the Honor Roll from the highest levels of the
federal government is recognition of the university’s
commitment to service and civic engagement on the SSU
campus.
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