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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History
From its abolitionist origins in the 1850s, Bates College has been committed to education for the public good, preparing students for lives of social responsibility and democratic citizenship.
The Harward Center for Community Partnerships builds on this legacy by placing civic engagement at the heart of the Bates education. The center supports educational activities - teaching, research, artistic creation, environmental stewardship and volunteer service - that enrich community life. Our work is grounded in three core values: the civic responsibility of higher education; the academic value of such community engagement; and a commitment to partnerships in weaving together academic work and public work.
Bates announced a $1.7 million gift to endow the Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships in May 2002. Named in honor of the sixth president of the college, Donald Harward, and his wife, at the time of Harward's retirement, the gift was raised from members of the board of trustees, former trustees, and parents of students, alumni, faculty and staff. Harward served as president of Bates from 1989 to 2002. Jill Reich, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Bates, announced in spring 2005 the appointment of David Scobey as first director of the Center. Scobey came to Bates from the University of Michigan, where he was Associate Professor of Architecture in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Director of the Arts of Citizenship program.