Posted - September 12, 2011

Eureka College receives community service grant from Illinois Campus Compact

Community Service Project

Five Eureka College students will receive Students in Service grants totaling $5,875 from Illinois Campus Compact for community service that they will perform over the next year. The students each will be eligible to earn $1,175 upon successful completion of 300 hours of community service though the program that supports the recruitment of college students to volunteer in their communities, according to Shari Rich, associate dean of students and director of applied learning, and the campus coordinator for the program. Rich will select the students over the next few weeks.

Eureka College is among 13 Illinois colleges and universities that have students participating in the program. Nationwide, more than 3,700 students will participate, contributing 1.4 million hours of service to their local communities.

“The Students in Service program has proven to be incredibly valuable to communities.  The education award helps students financially to stay in college while gaining valuable workforce and civic skills through their service experience,” said Jennifer Dorr, executive director of Washington Campus Compact, which administers the program.

Established in 1993 and hosted at DePaul University, Illinois Campus Compact is a coalition of 43 colleges and universities that engage presidents, faculty, staff and students to promote a vision of higher education that supports not only the civic development of students, but also the campus as an active and engaged member of its community.  It is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, a national organization comprised of more than 1,100 institutions committed to the civic and public purposes of higher education.

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Michele Lehman

Media Relations Coordinator

mlehman@eureka.edu

(309) 467-6318