The Corporation for National and Community Service named San Antonio College to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth.  San Antonio College and St. Mary's 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.
           
"We 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," said President Robert E. Zeigler. "San Antonio College has a longstanding commitment to service-learning."           

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.