Dowling College Receives President’s Honor Roll Award for Service School Honored for Distinguished Community Service

OAKDALE, NY – The Corporation for National and Community Service named Dowling College to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth.

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.

Dowling College was recognized for their efforts in the following initiatives:

• Dowling College Katrina Rebuilding Project
• Volunteer initiatives through the International and Scholar Services Program
• Athletics Department “Make A Wish” Initiative
• Volunteer Services through the Practicum in Social Work
• Literacy Center for the Brentwood Schools
• The Higher Education Opportunity Program
• GEAR-UP with the Wyandanch Schools
• Student Support Services

The Honor Roll is jointly sponsored by the Corporation, through its Learn and Serve America program, and the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA Freedom Corps, and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.

In congratulating the winners, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said, “Americans rely on our higher education system to prepare students for citizenship and the workforce. We look to institutions like these to provide leadership in partnering with local schools to shape the civic, democratic and economic future of our country.”

About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in several disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.