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 Partner Opportunities
THE CARIGNAN FUND FOR COMMUNITY PROGRAMS will provide grants of up to $2000 to community organizations to support programming that fosters new and strengthens existing connections between Bates College and our community. Applications will be accepted from new or established not-for-profit organizations, public agencies and businesses, serving the communities of Androscoggin County, that work with Bates students in partnership with the College. Funds are intended to support new or existing public-service projects and programs of those organizations. Successful applications will demonstrate a commitment to substantive and sustainable partnership. Funds should not be used primarily for short-term costs, but rather for capacity-building purposes such as research, infrastructure, or resources necessary to the initiative's growth. For more information, contact Marty Deschaines at the Harward Center for Community Partnerships (207-786-8273) or download an application in PDF format by clicking on the hyperlink above.
DEADLINE: TBD



