NSCC Named to President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

The Corporation for National and Community Service has honored North Shore Community College with a place on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America's communities.

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. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of selection factors including 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.

Several of the notable achievements that contributed to NSCC receiving this award included:

*NSCC's Project Youth Empowerment and Success (Y.E.S.) program that offered 3 cycles of a structured afterschool program for eighty-four Lynn middle school youth at risk of gang involvement

*Dr.Seuss Reader Day, where 14 NSCC students traveled to Plum Cove Elementary School in Gloucester, MA to read to 165 students.

*Administrators, Faculty and students embarking on the third of NSCC's "Alternative Breaks" to New Orleans in January of 2008. Working in concert with local relief organizations, the NSCC volunteers spent a week gutting and renovating homes devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

*The successful organization of an Anti-Violence forum, by a fifteen-member student focused activity group, which was attended by 500 middle school students and local legislators as well as NSCC students, faculty, and staff.

"In this time of economic distress, we need volunteers more than ever. College students represent an enormous pool of idealism and energy to help tackle some of our toughest challenges," said Stephen Goldsmith, vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees the Honor Roll. "We salute North Shore Community College for making community service a campus priority, and thank the millions of college students who are helping to renew America through service to others."

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