Alamo Community Colleges News & Events
For Immediate Release
February 15, 2008
Contact: John Hammond
Director, Public Relations, 210-733-2147
SAC Receives President¹s Honor Roll Award for Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service named San Antonio College
to the President¹s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for
exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. San Antonio
College and St. Mary¹s University were the only colleges in San Antonio to
receive this award.
The Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school
can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement.
Honorees were chosen based on criteria that include scope and innovativeness
of service projects, percentage of student participation in service
activities, incentives for service, and extent to which the school offers
academic service-learning courses.
³We are very proud of our students who have contributed to the community
through service-learning projects, our faculty who have integrated
service-learning with classroom learning, and Audrey Grams for coordinating
this successful program,² said President Robert E. Zeigler. ³San Antonio
College has a longstanding commitment to service-learning.²
Grams said that during the 12-month period judged for this award, SAC had a
total of 1,718 students who performed 21,886 service-learning hours (or an
estimated 24,385 of total community service hours that include
non-service-learning activities of the college) from the summer 2006 through
June 30, 2007. The rate of contribution was $410,800 for this period, using
the $18.77 per hour rate. Some of the agencies served were Any Baby Can,
Family Assistance Crisis Team, Salvation Army, SAMMinistries, San Antonio
Parks & Recreation (including SA Missions and the Alamo), Travis Elementary,
and San Antonio Food Bank.
The Honor Roll is jointly sponsored by the Corporation for National and
Community Service through its Learn and Serve America program and the
Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
USA Freedom Corps, and the President¹s Council on Service and Civic
Participation.
For information about SAC Service-Learning, contact Audrey Grams at
210-785-6044, or go to
http://www.learnandserve.gov/about/programs/higher_ed_honorroll.asp for
information about the President¹s Higher Education Community Service Honor
Roll.
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