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St. Olaf honored for community service

By David Gonnerman '90
March 17, 2010

The Corporation for National and Community Service has honored St. Olaf College with a place on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts. This is St. Olaf's second year on the list.

Last year 1,770 St. Olaf students logged more than 46,000 hours of community service for various programs that mentor local youth, work-study partnerships with local schools and nonprofits (read about the college's Civic Engagement Program), and the Ole Spring Relief trip to help Gulf Coast communities recover from Hurricane Katrina.

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 that 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.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.