Gateway Community College (GCC) was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This designation is the highest honor a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement.  

“GCC has a long history of service-learning and believes strongly in preparing our graduates to be active leaders and participants in an ever changing world,” said Dorsey Kendrick, GCC president. “We’re honored to receive this prestigious award – and owe much of it to the students themselves. They’re the energy driving our commitment and they’re the ones who make it all happen.”

Gateway Community College students have a long history of participation in community and fund raising activity, from blood drives to raising funds for cancer research to serving in local soup kitchens and providing financial literacy programs to K-12 classrooms. Several GCC student clubs and organizations spearhead these activities, thereby enriching campus life as well as the lives of others in the community.

“Congratulations to Gateway Community College, its faculty and students for its commitment to service, both in and out of the classroom,” said Wendy Spencer, CEO of CNCS.  “Through its work, institutions of higher education are helping improve their local communities and create a new generation of leaders by challenging students to go beyond the traditional college experience and solve local challenges.”

Inspired by the thousands of college students who traveled across the country to support relief efforts along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, CNCS has administered the award since 2006 and manages the program in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the American Council on Education and Campus Compact.

More information about the GCC community service efforts can be found at GatewayCT.edu, and more information on eligibility and the full list of Honor Roll awardees, can be found at nationalservice.gov.  

The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll honors the nation’s leading higher education institutions and their students, faculty and staff for their commitment to bettering their communities through service. These are institutions that reflect the values of exemplary community service and achieve meaningful outcomes in their communities.

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, the Social Innovation Fund and other programs, and leads President Obama’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve.