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.
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.
To see a list of previous recipients, click here.
2009-2010 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Dr. Faye Schuett ~ Schoolcraft College
Michigan Campus Compact is pleased to announce Dr. Faye Schuett, faculty director and professor of English at Schoolcraft College, will be honored with the MCC Lifetime Achievement Award at the 14th annual Institute: Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at 5:30 p.m. This prestigious annual award is the highest MCC bestows on faculty and staff in the state of Michigan.
Dr. Schuett was selected because of her years of most outstanding contributions in the area of service-learning and community service. This award recognizes the impact she had in significantly enhancing her students’ education and engagement in community service or service-learning.
Schuett is the founding director of the service-learning honors program at Schoolcraft College. In 1998, Schoolcraft Scholars was one of the first members of the Michigan Honors Association to include service-learning in its curriculum and is now an annual focus of the MHA conference. Although she is in preparation for retirement, Schuett continues to serve as coordinator of the Service Learning Group, a coalition of faculty, Student Services staff, administrators and students committed to learning through service. In 2008, Schoolcraft established a Service Learning Endorsement (SLE) to be awarded to students completing 15 credit hours of Service Learning courses. Presently, about 45 faculty members at Schoolcraft offer service options in academic courses, and 15 have been approved for SLE. Before retirement, Faye hopes to see at least 30 more courses become endorsed for academic service-learning.
Audio recording of Dr. Schuett's acceptance speech. Click here.
| Watch this video of SVSU Faculty Brian Thomas accepting his 08-09 MCC Award. His service-learning project involved students creating raised bed gardens- enough to provide fresh vegetables for 40 people |
2008-09 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Introduction of Kim Cummings at the 2009 Faculty/Staff Award Ceremony
Kim Cummings' Award Remarks at the 2009 Faculty/Staff Award Ceremony
To learn more about the Faculty/Staff Awards, please contact Shelley Long.