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Learn and Serve America Community-Based Research Innovation Grant
CELTS has received a Learn and Serve America innovation grant for “Energy and Empowerment in an Appalachian County,” an initiative to study energy needs and assets in Madison County.
The integrated three-year community-based research project will bring together multiple community partner organizations and multiple academic departments with their specific expertise. This collaborative and coalition-based approach will produce data toward the goals of improving financial security of low-income families in Madison County; benefiting the environment by reducing demand for coal-based electricity; and empowering community members to become actively involved in transforming the policies, infrastructure, assumptions and behaviors that drive energy use in Kentucky today.
Learn and Serve America Consortium Grant
From 2003 through 2006 CELTS and Berea College participated in a three-year Learn and Serve America Consortium Grant, entitled “Institutionalizing Service-Learning: Empowering Stakeholders.” Six colleges and universities across the country participated in the consortium, which was led by and funded through Tulane University’s Office of Service-Learning. The grant facilitated the development of several of our most dynamic service-learning programs, including the Faculty Seminars in Service-Learning and Service-Learning Support Grants. Through annual site visits and meetings at Tulane, the grant provided assistance in strategic planning and assessment, as well as valuable opportunities for networking and sharing ideas with the representatives of the other member institutions.
President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction
Berea College was named to the 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. Only a few institutions achieve this annual federal award which bestows the highest recognition a college may receive for its innovative and effective volunteerism, service-learning, and civic engagement. The honor roll is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and this award is sponsored by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, the USA Freedom Corps, and the U.S. Departments of Education and Housing, and Urban Development.
Recognition for Outstanding Service-Learning Program
Berea College is consistently recognized by US News and World Report as a college with one of most outstanding programs in Service-Learning in the nation.
Berea
College again ranked #1 by U.S.News & World Report
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