Bunker Hill Community College Earns National Recognition for Service Work

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Dec 23, 2014, 10:35 ET

BOSTON, Dec. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bunker Hill Community College has won national recognition for its service to the community. BHCC was among the institutions named to the 2014 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for their volunteer and service work. This is the fifth year that BHCC has been named to the President's Honor Roll. In 2013 BHCC Community Engagement programs reached an estimated 4,000 students, who provided approximately 5,000 hours of service to the Greater Boston community.

The President's Honor Roll recognizes higher education institutions whose community service efforts achieve meaningful outcomes in their communities. This distinction is the highest federal recognition colleges and universities can receive for community service, service-learning and civic engagement. "The energy among student volunteers right now is very high on campus. It's exciting to see their enthusiasm—it's contagious!" said Meghan Callaghan, BHCC Coordinator of Community Engagement and Student Volunteerism. "Fortunately, more and more transfer schools are looking at these kinds of experiences on applications, so our students are being rewarded in multiple ways for their volunteering."

The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through AmeriCorps, SeniorCorps, the Social Innovation Fund and the Volunteer Generation Fund. Other partners include the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Education, the Campus Compact and the American Council on Education.

Media Contact:
Karen M. Norton, Executive Director of Integrated Marketing and Communications
Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA 02129
Phone: 617-228-2177; Email: [email protected]

Bunker Hill Community College is the largest community college in Massachusetts. The College enrolls more than 14,000 students on two campuses and at three satellite locations. BHCC is one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in Massachusetts. Sixty-seven percent of the students are people of color and more than half of BHCC's students are women. The College also enrolls more than 800 international students who come from approximately 100 countries and speak more than 75 languages.

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