Research, Funding, and Awards

  • President's Higher Education Community Service

    Dear Colleagues,

    UConn is submitting an application to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, an award which recognizes higher education institutions’ commitment to student community service and service-learning.

    Given that community service and service-learning initiatives occur throughout the University, it is critical that we collect information to complete the application. 

    In order to meet the application deadline, we request that faculty and staff who engage students in community service and service-learning complete the following survey by Monday, February 17, 2014: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UConnHonorRoll2014. The survey has sections for your statistics as well as an optional area to highlight a specific service related initiative. You can review the survey questions before submitting your data by downloading the pdf here: http://bit.ly/1aEvFxj

    Through student, faculty, and staff support last year, UConn was able to report that more than 17,500 UConn students engaged in over 1.4 million hours of service through volunteerism, academic service-learning, and internships. Because of this great data, The University of Connecticut was named among five 2013 Presidential Award winners in the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

    This year the Honor Roll will recognize higher education institutions in four categories listed below:

     Click here for more information on the Honor Roll.

    For more information, contact: Christina Honeycutt at christina.honeycutt@uconn.edu