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MCPHS Named to President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

The Corporation for National and Community Service named MCPHS to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. The announcement was made at the American Council of Education’s annual meeting in San Diego on February 11. 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.

As part of the application for this recognition, the College was able to report extraordinary examples of service on all three campuses. The following three projects, highlighted in the application, are great examples of MCPHS’ commitment to all three of its surrounding communities. In Manchester, students volunteering at the Greater Manchester AIDS Project organized and participated in the city’s annual World AIDS Day event held at city hall. In Boston, students, faculty, and staff worked with fifteen Boston high school students allowing them the opportunity to explore health care careers and to discuss them first-hand through the Creandos Futuros program. In Worcester, the “Kids to College” program created a partnership between MCPHS and sixth grade students from the Burncoat Preparatory School. The purpose of the program is to inspire students to aim for college, make a connection between college and career choices, and involve the families of the students by sharing information about educational option.

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