CIVIC LEADERSHIP America Reads Fall 2010 Tutors of the Month

Opportunities in Community Service, Civic Engagement and
Civic Leadership...Leading to a life of Engaged Citizenship.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
American Cancer Society—Luminaria Order form
HWS Backpack Program donations
Community Lunch Program Volunteers Thursday’s in Feb.
HWS Annual February Blood Drive 2/21
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
America Reads/America Counts Job opportunities Spring 2011
Geneva Heroes Volunteers Needed
Alternative Spring Break Application Due 1/24
Presidents Obama remarks at Memorial Service in Tucson, Arizona
Ask Congress to Support Service on MLK Day
Jason “J-Mac” McElwain Book Signing &
Autism Symposiom 2/16
CIVIC LEADERSHIP
America Reads Fall 2010 Tutors of the Month
ENGAGED CITIZENSHIP
Pizza with the Peace Corps 2/8
HWS Selected to receive Carnegie Community Engagement
Classification!
Appetizers with AmeriCorps 3/1/11 @ 7pm
Engaged Citizen Speaker 4/14/11 @ 8pm
Engaged Citizen Forum 5/3/11 Vandervort Room
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Community
Lunch
Program
Would like your help!
HWS Colleges coordinates the
Community Lunch Program of
Geneva, a local soup kitchen, on
Thursdays during the Month of
February!
If you have any time on Thursday
from 9am-1pm to lend a hand,
please contact :
Community Engagement and
Service Learning !!!
e-mail: [email protected]
HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
BLOOD DRIVE
SPONSORED BY THE
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND
SERVICE LEARNING
THURSDAY, February 15, 2010
1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The Barn
Turn on your heart light by giving the gift that lasts a lifetime!
Please Contact CCESL at [email protected]
to volunteer or schedule your lifesaving appointment.
Walk-ins are welcome.
If you donated on or before
December 21, 2010
you are eligible to donate.
Do you enjoy working with children?
Teaching Reading, Math and other subjects
Then here is an opportunity for you
America Read, America Counts, Geneva Partners
Tutor Applications for Spring 2011
Return to CCESL (Trinity 203) or email to
[email protected]
For job descriptions and Applications go to:
http://www.hws.edu/academics/service/
volunteer_opportunities.aspx
Paid positions for Federal Work Study students
Volunteers needed !
Information Meeting
January 20, 2011
Trinity 305 @ 7pm
Remarks by the President at a Memorial Service for the Victims of the
Shooting in Tucson, Arizona
McKale Memorial Center
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
THE PRESIDENT:
To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the students of this
university, the public servants who are gathered here, the people of Tucson and the people
of Arizona: I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to
pray with you today and will stand by you tomorrow.
There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But know
this: The hopes of a nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen. We join
you in your grief. And we add our faith to yours that Representative Gabrielle Giffords
and the other living victims of this tragedy will pull through.
For the full article go to:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/12/remarks-president-barack-obama
-memorial-service-victims-shooting-tucson
Ask Congress to Support Service on MLK Day
On this 25th anniversary of MLK Day, please join ServiceNation in asking Congress to support service. Take a minute today to write your
representatives, and ask them for full funding for the Serve America
Act. Tell them you see the direct connections between federal funding
and local impact. Named after a true champion of service, the Edward
M. Kennedy Serve America Act was passed into law on April 21, 2009
with bipartisan support and was the largest expansion of community
and national service in over 75 years. Within the act were provisions
to increase the number of volunteers from 75,000 to 250,000, with
the expansion of programs like AmeriCorps and the introduction of 4
new programs with a focus on education, health care, energy and veterans. There is also a special focus on engaging students and retirees
in volunteer work by encouraging service learning programs in high
schools and colleges and establishing an alumni corps of volunteers.
Visit ServiceNation and let your representative know how much you
care about service by sending a letter about the Serve America Act.
Then get your friends involved by sharing this with them on facebook
and twitter (when you hit send, we'll show you how).
Jason “J-Mac” McElwain Book Signing
& Autism Symposium
Come listen to Jason “J-Mac” McElwain and
his father, David, speak about life with autism.
In addition, a panel of local experts will be on
hand for a question and answer session about
autism spectrum disorders.
Geneva High School Auditorium
101 Carter Road
February 16, 6:30pm
Sponsored by:
Ontario ARC & Success for Geneva’s Children
CIVIC LEADERSHIP
http://www.hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=13788
The Center for Community Engagement and ServiceLearning (CCESL) presents….
Pizza with the
Peace Corps!
Date : Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Time : 7:00 pm.
Location : Trinity 305
Category : On-Campus Events
Since 1961, more than 187,000 Peace Corps volunteers have been invited
by 139 countries, including over 165 HWS alumnae and alumni.
Students are invited to enjoy free pizza and listen to returned Peace Corps
Volunteers and a Peace Corps Recruiter share their experiences, from
7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 8th in Trinity 305
RSVPs are requested by e-mailing [email protected]
by Monday the 24th @ 4 p.m. or by calling x.3825
Life is calling...how far will you go?
HWS Selected as one of 115 Institutions to
receive presitigous Carnegie Community
Engagement Classification
http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/downloads/2010_classified_institutions.pdf
In January 2010 the call for applications for Carnegie's elective Community
Engagement Classification was announced. Interested institutions were
asked to register to apply by March 1, 2010. Three-hundred and five (305)
institutions registered and on April 1 applications were sent to those colleges and universities. By the Sept. 1 deadline, one-hundred and fifty-one
(151) institutions had withdrawn from the application process, primarily declaring a lack of readiness for the classification requirements. One hundred
and fifty-four (154) institutions did apply and the review process was conducted through Dec. 1.
The National Advisory Panel served as consultants in the review process to
the classification team at the New England Resource Center for Higher
Education of John Saltmarsh and Consulting Scholar Amy Driscoll. One
hundred and fifteen (115) institutions were successfully classified in Community Engagement, while thirty-two (32) institutions were not classified in
this process. Five (5) campuses that had previously received the classification under the category of Outreach and Partnerships added the category of
Curricular Engagement. One (1) campus that had previously received the
classification under the category of Curricular Engagement added the category of Outreach and Partnerships. (Starting with 2010, there are no longer
any separate classification categories – all campus applications have to be
successful in both Curricular Engagement and Outreach and Partnerships.)
Of the one-hundred and fifteen (115) successfully classified institutions,
sixty-one (61) are public institutions and fifty-four (54) are private; thirtyseven (37) are classified in Carnegie's Basic Classification as research universities universities, forty (40) are master's colleges and universities,
twenty-eight (28) are baccalaureate colleges, six (6) are community colleges, and two (4) institutions have a specialized focus - arts, medicine,
technology. The classified institutions represent campuses in thirty-four (34)
states.