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LSUE Named to Presidential Honor Roll For Community Service
Friday, February 13, 2009
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EUNICE – The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Louisiana State University at Eunice today with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities.
“LSU at Eunice is exceedingly proud to be once again selected as a campus recipient of the President’s National Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2008 for its “Bengal Book Buddy Program”— making LSUE one of the top ten percent of the campuses, nationally, to receive this honor,” said LSUE Chancellor William Nunez.
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 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.
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.
“National studies have shown that over 40 percent of all students entering 4th grade cannot read at their grade level (over 50 percent in Louisiana), and that lower elementary students, who fall into this reading category, will, subsequently, encounter problems in all of their academic work in school and ultimately, become drop-out prone,” said Nunez. “The Book Buddy Program works against such an occurrence by providing the individual attention needed to improve upon the student’s reading level, while also instilling in them both a love for reading and a love for books.”
LSUE’s Book Buddy Project is in its 12th year of service to the Eunice area.
“In this time of economic distress, we need volunteers more than ever. College students represent an enormous pool of idealism and energy to help tackle some of our toughest challenges,” said Stephen Goldsmith, vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees the Honor Roll. “We salute LSU at Eunice for making community service a campus priority, and thank the millions of college students who are helping to renew America through service to others.”
Overall, the Corporation honored six schools with Presidential Awards. In addition, 83 were named as Honor Roll With Distinction members and 546 schools as Honor Roll members. In total, 635 schools were recognized. A full list is available at www.nationalservice.gov/honorroll.
The Honor Roll is a program of the Corporation, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll is presented during the annual conference of the American Council on Education.
“I offer heartfelt congratulations to those institutions named to the 2008 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. College and university students across the country are making a difference in the lives of others every day – as are the institutions that encourage their students to serve others,” said American Council on Education President Molly Corbett Broad.
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