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Four Eureka College students will receive Students in Service Grants totaling $4,700 from Illinois Campus Compact for community service they will perform over the next 12 months. The students each will be eligible to earn a $1,175 educational grant upon completion of 300 hours of community service through the program that supports the recruitment of college students to volunteer in their communities, according to Shari Rich, associate dean of students and director of applied learning and the campus coordinator for the program.
Students who were selected to receive the grants are sophomore Haylee Bruce of Decatur, junior Tabitha Masonholder of Peoria, sophomore Joshua Moore of Goodlettsville, Tenn., and sophomore Kamrin Ruder of Eureka. The students and Rich attended a retreat and training session in Chicago Oct. 28 and 29 to prepare the students for their service work.
Eureka College is among 13 Illinois colleges and universities that have students participating in the program. Nationwide, more than 3,700 students will participate, contributing 1.4 million hours of service to their local communities.
“The Students in Service program has proven to be incredibly valuable to communities,” said Jennifer Dorr, executive director of Washington Campus Compact, which administers the program. “The education award helps students financially to stay in college while gaining valuable workforce and civic skills through their service experience,” she said.
Established in 1993 and hosted at DePaul University, Illinois Campus Compact is a coalition of 43 colleges and universities that engage presidents, faculty, staff and students to promote a vision of higher education that supports not only the civic development of students, but also the campus as an active and engaged member of its community. It is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, a national organization comprised of more than 1,100 institutions committed to the civic and public purposes of higher education.
Four Eureka College students will receive Students in Service Grants totaling $4,700 from Illinois Campus Compact for community service they will perform over the next 12 months. The students each will be eligible to earn a $1,175 educational grant upon completion of 300 hours of community service through the program that supports the recruitment of college students to volunteer in their communities, according to Shari Rich, associate dean of students and director of applied learning and the campus coordinator for the program.
Students who were selected to receive the grants are sophomore Haylee Bruce of Decatur, junior Tabitha Masonholder of Peoria, sophomore Joshua Moore of Goodlettsville, Tenn., and sophomore Kamrin Ruder of Eureka. The students and Rich attended a retreat and training session in Chicago Oct. 28 and 29 to prepare the students for their service work.
Eureka College is among 13 Illinois colleges and universities that have students participating in the program. Nationwide, more than 3,700 students will participate, contributing 1.4 million hours of service to their local communities.
“The Students in Service program has proven to be incredibly valuable to communities,” said Jennifer Dorr, executive director of Washington Campus Compact, which administers the program. “The education award helps students financially to stay in college while gaining valuable workforce and civic skills through their service experience,” she said.
Established in 1993 and hosted at DePaul University, Illinois Campus Compact is a coalition of 43 colleges and universities that engage presidents, faculty, staff and students to promote a vision of higher education that supports not only the civic development of students, but also the campus as an active and engaged member of its community. It is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, a national organization comprised of more than 1,100 institutions committed to the civic and public purposes of higher education.
