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Community Service
Kean University is committed to creating and nurturing a culture of
service. Kean students are engaged with their communities and with
contemporary social problems; engineeringnovel solutions topresent day
challenges in the classroom and beyond. Kean’s exemplary community
service programs and ongoing commitment to civic engagement have
been recognized by the Corporation for National Community Service
(CNCS), which recently named Kean to the President’s Higher Education
Community Service Honor Roll for the sixth consecutive time. Kean
students earned this prestigious designation by logging 49,500 hours of
community service in a 12-month period.
“Six straight years on the President’s Higher Education Community
Service Honor Roll is a point of pride for all of us at Kean,” said Kean
University President Dawood Farahi, Ph.D. “Community service is part
of Kean’s curriculum and its culture. Our community has answered the
call to service with an exemplary commitment to making meaningful
improvements in the communities around us.”
Kean’s Center for Leadership and Service (CLS) oversees and coordinates a
number of community service projects throughout the year including: the
9/11 and MLK National Days of Service, National Volunteer Week, regular
blood drives, environmental cleanups, Hurricane Sandy relief projects,
and multiple charitable fundraising and collection efforts.
In 2015, Kean was one of the top fundraising teams for the Making
Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk of Edison, NJ, raising nearly $6,000
for cancer research. The annual Kean Dance Marathon (KDM) raises
funds for the Children’s Miracle Network. Over the past few years Kean
Kean Students Earn Recognition on President Obama’s
Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
students have raised over $75,000 for the Children’s Specialized Hospital
in Mountainside, N.J. The event organizers hope to raise $40,000 at this
year’s KDM, scheduled for Friday, April 7.
“Our students want to contribute to a better world, and we offer them
opportunities to do that, as a cornerstone to their world-class Kean
University experience,” said Janice Murray-Laury, Kean’s vice president for
student affairs. “But make no mistake about it, they are the ones who do
the work, and who are eager to make a difference. It is great to see them
get the recognition that they so richly deserve.”
“Everyone on campus shares this honor,” said Scott Snowden, CLS
director. “Working through groups like the Student Organization, Greek
Life, the Center for Leadership and Service, athletics, health sciences, Be
the Change, JumpStart, and others, students with a passion for making
a difference in the lives of others are having an impact through service
projects addressinghunger andhomelessness, early childhood education,
the environment, cancer research, and so much more.”
CNCS, the federal agency for volunteering and service, has administered
the President’s Community Service Honor Roll since 2006, 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, Campus Compact, and the Interfaith Youth Core.
For more information about Kean University’s community service
opportunities, visit
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The full list of Honor Roll
awardees can be found at
Kean students have volunteered for a variety of projects all over the state.
