UMaine Cited for Community Engagement

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Pictured with the University of Maine’s 2013 Exemplary Program Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, left to right, UMaine President Paul Ferguson; Lu Zeph and Claire Sullivan.

The Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies at the University of Maine has received a 2013 Exemplary Program Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) for its 22 years of commitment to community engagement.

Each year through a competitive proposal process to receive the $20,000 C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award, four-year public universities are recognized for outreach and engagement efforts by the C. Peter Magrath University/Community Engagement Award and the Engagement Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award, sponsored by APLU and the Engagement Scholarship Consortium. Dr. Lu Zeph, associate provost, dean of lifelong learning, and director of the Center for Community Inclusion and Dr. Claire Sullivan, associate dean for community engagement in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, prepared the proposal for consideration.

UMaine was among eight universities nationwide honored for exemplary proposals for the Engagement Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award. Finalists for the 2013 C. Peter Magrath Award were the Young Scholars Program at Ohio State University, the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship Program at Pennsylvania State University, the Nuestra Case Initiative at the University of Texas at El Paso and the McCall Outdoor Science School at the University of Idaho. The awards were presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium Oct. 8 at Texas Tech University. The recipient of the 2013 C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award — Ohio State University — was honored at the national APLU Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 12.