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Dowling College Receives President's Honor Roll Award for Service
School Honored for Distinguished Community Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service named Dowling
College to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor
Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth.
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 including scope and
innovativeness 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.
Dowling College was recognized for their efforts in the following
initiatives:
- Dowling College Katrina Rebuilding Project
- Volunteer initiatives through the International and Scholar
Services Program
- Athletics Department "Make A Wish" Initiative
- Volunteer Services through the Practicum in Social Work
- Literacy Center for the Brentwood Schools
- The Higher Education Opportunity Program
- GEAR-UP with the Wyandanch Schools
- Student Support Services
The Honor Roll is jointly sponsored by the Corporation, through its
Learn and Serve America program, and the Department of Education, the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA Freedom Corps, and the
President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.
In congratulating the winners, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret
Spellings said, "Americans rely on our higher education system to
prepare students for citizenship and the workforce. We look to
institutions like these to provide leadership in partnering with local
schools to shape the civic, democratic and economic future of our
country."
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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