Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Awards
Michigan Campus Compact annually recognizes outstanding community service and service-learning by faculty and staff of our members. The Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award is given to one person from each campus who engages or influences students to be involved in community service or service-learning through modeling, influence, or instruction.
This is the fifteenth year for this award and we are happy to be able to recognize the contributions of our faculty and staff in the areas of community service and service-learning. Each member campus has the opportunity to nominate one recipient who engages or influences students to be involved in community service or service-learning through modeling, influencing or instruction. This special recognition of contributions to campus and community highlights the very best in higher education. The recipient is determined by your campus; your President or Chancellor's office received a nomination packet and are asked to designate someone on the campus to coordinate the selection process. Some institutions coordinate this process through their community service or service-learning office. Others utilize a campus committee to select from those nominated within the institution.
Due to severe weather, the 12th Annual Institute: Service-Learning and Civic Engagement conference and awards celebration were cancelled. Recipients of the 2007 Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Awards and the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award winner are typically recognized during this time. To see a complete list of this year's recipients, click here.
2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
In recognition of his community service work and his contribution to the expansion of Academic Service Learning opportunities, Dr. Robert Kulisheck has been selected to receive the Michigan Campus Compact 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Kulisheck, Professor of Political Science and Public Adminsitration, has been a teacher and an administrator at Northern Michigan University since 1969, served as head of the Political Science Department from 1975 to 1998 and was the director of Graduate Program in Public Administration from 1977 to 2001. During his career at Northern, he taught a wide range of courses in the areas of public policy analysis and foreign policy.
Bob has been a strong advocate of experiential education. For several years he served as the department intern supervisor and was one of the founders of Northern’s highly successful Washington, D.C. Internship program. He has also incorporated Academic Service Learning activities in several of his undergraduate courses and helped with the development of the new university-wide Superior Edge Program. In addition to his service to the University community, Bob has experience as an elected and appointed public official. He served as a Marquette city commissioner, mayor pro tem and mayor. He currently chairs the City’s Presque Isle Park Advisory Committee and was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Marquette County Board of Health.
Bob’s community service work has focused on providing housing for the homeless and disabled residents of his community. He is president of the Board of Directors of the Propylon Nonprofit Housing Corporation, an eighteen unit facility for low-income mobility impaired residents. Bob is also a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Jansen House. For the past 25 years the Jansen House, a combination low income hotel and shelter, has provided housing for 30 otherwise homeless individuals. After 38 years at Northern Michigan University, Professor Kulisheck will be retiring.
To learn more about the Faculty/Staff Awards, please contact Lisa Sommer.