Community Service Honored

Lafayette was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and community engagement in 2008.

The honor roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Criteria for the award include 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. Lafayette was also named to the honor roll in 2006, its inaugural year.

The Landis Community Outreach Center supports campus-community collaborations through co-curricular service-learning projects and community-based learning, research, and service. Faculty in all academic divisions teach courses and lead student-focused research with service-learning components. Campus organizations also participate in service-learning projects locally and globally.

The honor roll is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.