Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $10,000 stipend for a graduating college senior to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world. The award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.
The deadline to apply for the Samuel Huntington Public Service Award is February 15, 2010. Please click here for more information and to obtain an application.
At A Glance: Engaging Students with the Community
The Harward Center for Community Partnerships offers students the opportunity to engage with community partners through:
Community-Based Learning: Academically connected community-based work that includes courses, research, thesis, and independent study;
Fellowships/Community Work-Study: Paid employment that includes work with non-profit agencies;
Volunteerism: Student-led community engagement activities that are not tied to a course and are unpaid. These are one-time, short-term or ongoing activities supported by the Student Volunteer Fellows.
Kudos
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A plan by three Bates College students to offer Tanzanian street children a survival alternative to a pervasive sex-for-food trade has won a $10,000 award from the 100 Projects for Peace program.
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Faculty Profile

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In April 2007, Lee Abrahamsen was one of three Maine college educators to receive the consortium's Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence (named for Bates President Emeritus Harward).
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National Recognition
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently selected Bates College for its new Community Engagement Classification, created to recognize colleges and universities that have institutionalized community engagement in their endeavors.
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Community Partners List
The following is a sample of the community agencies and institutions involved with Bates' community-based learning projects:
Abused Women's Advocacy Project
Advocates for Children
Androscoggin County Head Start and Child Care
Androscoggin Historical Society
Auburn School Department
B Street Health Center
City of Lewiston
Dirigo Place
Franco-American Heritage Center
Lewiston Adult Education
Lewiston Even Start Family Literacy Program
Lewiston Housing Authority
Lewiston Multi-Purpose Center
Lewiston School Department
Lots to Gardens
Maine District Court
Maine People's Alliance
Museum L/A
New Beginnings
Pine Tree Legal Assistance
Renaissance House
River Valley Village
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center
Sandcastle Pre-School
Spindleworks
Trinity Church Jubilee Center
Volunteers of America Juvenile Justice Day Reporting Center
YWCA Day Care
Youthbuild/ACE



