Bonner Center

Carson-Newman College Awarded Highest Presidential Honor for Community Service!

The Corporation for National and Community Service and the U.S. Department of Education recently awarded Carson-Newman College with the Presidential Award in the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for its commitment to bettering the community through community service and service learning.

Five higher education institutions, including Carson-Newman, received the Presidential Award, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to community service. The universities will be honored later today at the annual American Council on Education meeting in Los Angeles. Carson-Newman and North Carolina State University will be lauded for General Community Service, which represents both the scope and quality of an institution’s community service, service-learning, and civic engagement programs.

The Bonner Center at Carson-Newman College is proud to be part of Carson-Newman's dedication to service and to facilitate the Bonner Scholars, who "act as community liaisons and drive service participation on campus through a number of programs, including BOOST."

For more information and videos, check out www.NationalService.gov/HonorRoll.  

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The Bonner Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement at Carson-Newman College prepares future-minded servant leaders committed to building and sustaining a caring community through integration of academic excellence and community engagement. Our programs encourage students to live the values of Carson-Newman College through courageous pursuit of social justice, truth, beauty, and goodness.

We build a strong culture of community engagement;We strengthen engaged scholarship by faculty and students;We foster collaborative and sustained partnerships between the College and the community;We advocate sustainable social justice solutions to community challenges. 

We do this via several programs and initiatives:

 

                                                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

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