Maine Campus Compact celebrated its 22nd annual Awards Ceremony April 28 at the University of Maine at Augusta to recognize outstanding work in public service and civic engagement by Maine faculty, students, and community and corporate partners.

The award recipients’ positive impacts on campuses and in communities throughout the state reinforce the importance of the public purposes of higher education, according to a news release from Sally Slovenski, executive director of Maine Campus Compact.

The Donald Harward Award for Faculty Service-Learning Excellence recognizes three Maine faculty who integrate community or public service into the curriculum and who work to institutionalize service-learning. Harward was founder of Maine Campus Compact and former board member of national and Maine Campus Compacts.

Award winners have shown clear evidence of reflection, community benefit, reciprocity with community partners and a commitment to advocating for service-learning and/or community action on campus and beyond.

The 2023 recipients of the Harward award are:

• Camilla Bridge, instructor and lab coordinator, Biology Department, Saint Joseph’s College;

• Shawn Graham, assistant professor of counseling and behavioral science unit chair, University of Maine at Fort Kent; and

• Anelise Hanson Shrout, assistant professor of digital and computational Studies, Bates College.

The Heart and Soul Student Award recognizes six Maine undergraduate students who are actively involved in transforming their campuses and communities into environments of civic engagement. These students have developed positive community and campus change and have worked to institutionalize their community projects. They have implemented innovative approaches to social, educational, environmental, health, economic and legal issues facing their communities and demonstrated leadership through their successful involvement of others on campus and in the community.

2023 Heart and Soul Student Award recipients:

• Alan Aldrich, Husson University;

• Elizabeth Greenberg, Colby College;

• Annika Mirchandani, Bates College;

• Andrew Martin, Saint Joseph’s College;

• Margo Ngo, Bowdoin College; and

• Tammy Pilkington, Saint Joseph’s College.

The Community Partner of the Year Award recognizes an outstanding community partner organization and its staff for their exemplary partnership with an MCC member institution.

The 2023 award recipient:

• Montello Elementary School in partnership with Bates College.

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