School of Communication
This award recognizes the School for its commitment to excellence in incorporating civic/community engagement into its curriculum and co-curricular activities.
The Department of Physics received an Honorable Mention for its commitment of civic and community engagement in its extra curricular activities.
Dr. Sara Cole from the Department of Health Sciences has been selected to receive the 2007 Focus Faculty Award. Since the beginning of her career in 2003 she has supervised more than 210 students in the completion of more than 6,600 hours of service-learning. She truly translates the Health Science Department’ s motto “Learning by Doing” into action as she maintained and recruited 25 service-learning partnerships.
Dr. Maria Schmeeckle from the Sociology and Anthropology Department received an Honorable Mention for taking civic and community engagement to another level. She introduced an international service-learning awareness project about the plight of children in Brazil into her SOC 262 Marriage and Family course.
The FOCUS Department/School Award recognizes a department/school that has demonstrated commitment and excellence incorporating civic/community engagement into their curriculum and co-curricular activities.
The School of Communication is the recipient of the 2008 FOCUS Department/School Award
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology received honorable mention.
The FOCUS Faculty Award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated commitment and excellence incorporating civic/community engagement into their course(s).
Sandra Klitzing, School of Kinesiology and Recreation is the 2008 recipient of the FOCUS Faculty Award.
