Black Colleges Receive Presidential Volunteerism Award

A multitude of historically black colleges and universities have been named to the prestigious President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, an award presented to colleges and universities demonstrating commitment and excellence to volunteerism and service learning initiatives.

The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, launched in 2006, annually recognizes institutions of higher education for their commitment to and achievement in community service. The President’s Honor Roll increases the public’s awareness of the contributions that colleges and their students make to local communities and the nation as a whole. President Obama has pledged to make service a central cause of his administration and wishes to commemorate the significant role that higher institutions, their students, staff, and faculty play in helping to solve pressing social problems in the nation’s communities.

The list of honored HBCUs includes:

• Benedict College
• Claflin University
• Elizabeth City State University
• Fayetteville State University
• Florida A&M University
• Grambling State University
• Johnson C. Smith University
• Kentucky State University
• North Carolina Central University
• Rust College
• Saint Augustine’s College
• Shaw University
• Southern University at New Orleans
• Tougaloo College
• Virginia Union University
• Winston-Salem State University

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