Tufts Named to National Community Service Honor Roll

Tufts has been selected to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service and civic engagement. Honorees were named to the honor roll based on 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.

According to Katie Cinnamond, Assistant Director of Public Relations at Tufts, the school was selected because of its broad array of community-based work, including the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, which helps all Tufts students partner with communities and develop skills to become active leaders; the Tufts Leonard Carmichael Society, which pairs student volunteers and coordinators with programs serving at-risk children and youth; and Jumpstart, which partners students with low-income, preschool and K-8 children to help them build literacy, language and social skills.

Tufts has made the honor roll four times, including in 2009 and “with distinction” in 2006 and 2008.

– InsideMedford.com