Over the weekend I received a brochure for the 2008 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll: Honoring Campus Engagement With Community. I have to admit a number of schools came to mind as I read that the honor recognizes an institution's commitment to "volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement." I was curious enough about the designation to read the website and this modern hippie was impressed!
I've pasted just a highlight of the selection factors:
- Reviewer evaluations of the scope, innovativeness, and evidence of effectiveness of the service projects described in the application
- Percentage of total student enrollment engaged in community service activities.
- Percentage of total student enrollment engaged in at least 20 hours of community service per semester.
- Percentage of total student enrollment engaged in academic service-learning courses.
- Extent to which the institution offers academic service-learning courses.
- Whether the institution requires academic service-learning as part of the core curriculum of at least one major.
- Whether the institution rewards the use of academic service-learning through faculty promotion and tenure decisions, or other means.
Sound like anyone you know? ;) Applications are due on September 23, 2008, so make sure you check out the site in the coming weeks. Award winners will be announced at ACE's annual meeting next February in Washington, DC.
-- Teresa
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