February 26, 2013
In the World

Wittenberg Earns National Distinction for Service

Honored for a Fifth Time

​​Wittenberg University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts by the Corporation for National and Community Service. This is the fifth time the university has be so honored.

Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. The 2013 Honor Roll recipients were announced at the American Council on Education’s 95th Annual Meeting “Leading Change,” March 4, in Washington, D.C.

“Each year when I submit the application, I am humbled by the meaningful ways our students, faculty and staff serve in the local community and beyond,” Wittenberg Director of Community Service Kristen Collier said.

Close to 700 colleges and universities were awarded spots on the honor roll lists based on a series of selection factors, including scope and innovativeness 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. A full list is available at http://www.learnandserve.gov/about/programs/higher_ed_honorroll.asp.

The Community Service Honor Roll is jointly sponsored by the corporation through its Learn and Serve America program, and the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA Freedom Corps, and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.

The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. The organization administers Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve America, a program that supports service-learning in schools, institutions of higher education and community-based organizations. For more information, go to http://www.nationalservice.gov.

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About Wittenberg

Wittenberg's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, Wittenberg has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, Wittenberg offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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