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LSU Eunice Receives President’s Honor Roll Award for Service
Thursday, February 14, 2008
- LSUE Public Relations |
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School Honored for Distinguished Community Service
EUNICE – The Corporation for National and Community Service named LSU at Eunice to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth through the university’s Book Buddy Program.
“The President’s Honor roll focused upon disadvantage student success this year,” said LSUE Chancellor William Nunez. “Clearly our Book Buddy program was recognized because of our efforts of early interventions with students. If kids can’t read by the third grade they will probably not graduate. So early intervention is crucial to student academic success. Reading is a gateway skill upon which everything is built.”
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.
LSUE was honored for its work with early reading intervention through the campus’ Book Buddy project. Faculty, staff, and students participate in the project by being partnered with a pre-kindergarten through third grade student in the community’s local grammar schools and spend 30 minutes a week in one-on-one reading sessions with the children. The program encourages children to develop their reading skills and to recognize the importance of reading in their lives. LSUE’s Book Buddy Project is in its 10th year of service to the Eunice area.
“College students are tackling the toughest problems in America, demonstrating their compassion, commitment, and creativity in by serving as mentors, tutors, health workers, and even engineers,” Eisner said. “They represent a renewed spirit of civic engagement fostered by outstanding leadership on caring campuses.”
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.”
Overall, the Community Service Honor Roll awarded six schools with Presidential Awards. In addition, four schools were recognized as Special Achievement Award winners, 127 as Honor Roll With Distinction members and 391 schools as Honor Roll members.
“The award was well received as we were one of only two schools in the LSU System to receive the award,” said Nunez. “It couldn’t take place without the number of Bengal athletes, students and faculty that make it happen.”
Nine schools were recognized in Louisiana including LSUE, LSU, Centenary College, Delgado Community College, Loyola University, Nicholls State, River Parishes Community College, Southern University and Xavier University. Tulane was named to the Honor Roll List With Distinction.
“There is no question that the universities and colleges who have made an effort to participate and win the Honor Roll award are themselves being rewarded,” said American Council on Education President David Ward. “Earning this distinction is not easy. But now each of these schools will be able to wear this award like a badge of honor.”
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.
The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. The Corporation administers Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve America, a program that supports service-learning in schools, institutions of higher education and community-based organizations.
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