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CLARKSON
COLLEGE AWARDED A HIGHER DEGREE OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE-LEARNING
GRANT
Omaha, Neb., January 15, 2007: The Clarkson College
Service-Learning Department was recently awarded with A Higher Degree of
Academic Excellence in Service-Learning grant for $15,000 that will run
through December 2007.
Gary L. Heusel
the director of Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education said,
"A strong history of service was a comment from all the reviewers. Your
history of working in partnership with community agencies was definitely
recognized. The faculty development efforts recently initiated coupled with
mini-grants to provide the money needed for the extra costs associated with
community service-learning are viewed as positive to strengthening
service-learning at Clarkson College."
Over 25
institutions applied for grants for 2007 from the Midwest Consortium of
Service Learning. Clarkson College was awarded the maximum allowable award.
"Your
leadership in the metro coalition was recognized as was the effort to focus
more on the PK-12 audience. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced
lunch prices definitely provide enough evidence that you will be reaching the
audience the Consortium proposed to the Corporation for National Community
Service," Heusel said. "After school programs at agencies or learning centers
will provide access to additional youth at a time of day when the
experiential approach to learning is more readily accepted by the formal
education system. You have made significant efforts to involve VISTAs in your
program and as a result have added valuable additional human resources to the
service-learning program at Clarkson."
"Clarkson
College is extremely active in the community partnering with others for
service-learning and community service including; Chicano Awareness Center,
Omaha Public School District, Open Door Mission and the AIM Institute just to
name a few. Students, faculty and staff have been very active in
service-learning and community service completing serving over 43 agencies in
the past year," said Judi Dunn dean of professional development.
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