Center for Community Service Named to National Honor Roll

By Nick Frogameni '12, '14

The University of Hartford's Center for Community Service has been named to the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. This is the fourth year that the University of Hartford was named to the honor roll.

The Center for Community Service, which places more than 500 University students in volunteer opportunities each year, was honored in part for the scope and innovation of its service projects.

"This honor highlights the University of Hartford’s strong commitment to community service, and establishes the University as being on the forefront of community service engagement not just locally but nationally as well, encouraging students to care about the larger community," said Matthew Blocker-Glynn, director of the Center for Community Service.

The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll annually recognizes institutions of higher education for their commitment to and achievement in community service. President Obama has pledged to make service a central cause of his administration and wishes to commemorate the significant role that higher education institutions, their students, staff, and faculty play in helping to solve pressing social problems in the nation's communities.