Southern Wesleyan University’s community service recognized
For the first time in its history, Southern Wesleyan University was awarded a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, an honor recognizing the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems while engaging their students in community projects.
The President's Honor Roll recognizes higher education institutions in four categories: general community service, interfaith community service, economic opportunity and education.
Justin Carter, associate vice president for student life, credits Maggie Turner, director of community engagement, for spearheading the application process at the university. According to Turner, 935 Southern Wesleyan students logged a total of 58,499 community service hours during the 2012-’13 academic year.
“The combined hours between our day of service, earth day, education practicums, mission and service trips, athletic team service hours and other community service efforts contributed to our amazing grand total,” Turner said. “I consider it an enormous honor to work along such engaged and generous students. They are truly adding value and sharing love with the local and greater communities around them. Kingdom work is being done here at Southern Wesleyan University, and it is exciting to be a part of it.”
“It is a rather lengthy application that requests data from several university departments. Maggie was responsible for collecting this data, calculating the combined service hours from our institution and reporting these hours in predetermined categories identified by the Corporation for National and Community Service,” Carter said. “The actual data collection and reporting took months to complete, but you can see the results of Maggie’s hard work.”
Southern Wesleyan University is a Christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for Christ. For details about degree programs, go online to swu.edu.