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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

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

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

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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News

Rwandan genocide survivor, Berthe Kayitesi, to speak at Bates

Berthe Kayitesi, an author and a survivor of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, speaks about her experiences and the rebuilding of communities in post-conflict Rwanda at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the Muskie Archives at Bates, 70 Campus Ave.

Students discuss presidential election in civic forum

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships continues its 2008-09 Civic Forum series with a student panel discussion on possible outcomes and implications of the upcoming presidential election.

Harward Center launches 2008-09 Civic Forum series

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships inaugurates its 2008-09 Civic Forum series with a talk by a leading scholar-activist on democratic renewal and civic engagement. Peter Levine, director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University delivers a lecture titled "What Happens on November 5? Activating Citizenship (No Matter Who Wins)" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. The event is open to the public free of charge.

Community Fabric: The Harward Center and a fledgling Lewiston museum weave a working partnership

Rachel Degrosseilliers remembers the chain-link fence that encircled the Bates campus when she was growing up in Lewiston in the 1940s and 1950s. "Bates College was like an island," says the Franco-American millworker's daughter. "We regarded Bates as the elites, the intellectuals. The fence seemed to say, 'Keep out.'"

Colleges Should Change Policies to Encourage Scholarship Devoted to the Public Good, Report Says

A national consortium of more than 80 colleges and universities is urging higher education to revamp its tenure and promotion policies so that what it calls public scholarship is recognized and rewarded.

Bates celebrates Harward Center for Community Partnerships Awards

Twenty individuals and organizations that received the second annual Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnership Awards, were recently recognized in a celebration at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.

Athletics and volunteerism work together for Nate Kellogg '09

As a student volunteer fellow at the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Nate Kellogg '09 coordinates volunteer activities for Bates sports teams and clubs.

Bates alumni present public interest career forum

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships, in conjunction with Alumni and Parent Programs and the Office of Career Services, presents a public interest career forum for current Bates students entitled "Beyond the Bubble: Batesies in Public Work" from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, in the Benjamin Mays Center. A barbeque for participating students, faculty, staff and alumni immediately follows the presentation.