Arcadia University Named to President’s Community Service Honor Roll
Glenside, Pa.— March 2, 2010— Arcadia University has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Selection to the Honor Roll is recognition from the highest levels of the federal government of Arcadia’s commitment to service and civic engagement on the campus and in the world. Read more.
Each year, beginning with New Student Orientation, Arcadia students, faculty, staff and alumni perform thousands of hours of community service in the tri-county area. Arcadia also organizes an Alternative Spring Break service learning experience. On March 14-20, 38 students and two staff members will go to Tijuana, Mexico to help Esperanza International rebuild homes.
“We provide assistance to the communities’ requests for volunteer aide,” says Cindy Rubino, Coordinator of Community Service. “Ongoing projects such as the America Reads Program where this year 72 students served at nine different sites to offer assistance to the surrounding community, serve community needs.” Other services projects also include:
- Empty Bowl Benefit Dinner
- Alternative Winter Break Trips
- Alternative Spring Break Trips
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
- Dr. Seuss Day
- Operation Holiday
- Interfaith Hospitality Network
- Collections
Arcadia also was named to the 2008 honor roll. The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, launched in 2006, annually recognizes institutions of higher education for their commitment to and achievement in community service. The President’s Honor Roll increases the public’s awareness of the contributions that colleges and their students make to local communities and the nation as a whole. President Obama has pledged to make service a central cause of his administration and wishes to commemorate the significant role that higher institutions, their students, staff, and faculty play in helping to solve pressing social problems in the nation’s communities.
About Arcadia University: Arcadia University is a top-ranked private university in metropolitan Philadelphia and a national leader in study abroad, ranked #1 in undergraduate participation in study abroad (Open Doors 2009). Arcadia University promises a distinctively global, integrative and personal learning experience that prepares students to contribute and prosper in a diverse and dynamic world. U.S. News & World Report ranks Arcadia University among the top master’s universities in the North, as one of the top study abroad programs in the nation, and as a “top up-and-coming school.” The Physical Therapy program is ranked 7th in the nation.
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