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MCC Recognizes Students for their Dedication to Community Service

Michigan Campus Compact will award four students from Alma College for their dedication and commitment to community service during the 11th annual Outstanding Student Service Awards, Saturday, April 14 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing.

Each year, MCC awards students from member colleges and universities across the state for their commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Four types of awards are given: the Outstanding Community Impact Award, the Commitment to Service Award, the Heart and Soul Award and the Michigan Humanitarian Award. Awardees were selected from a nomination pool of more than 400 students.

Erin Bernethy of Linwood will receive the Commitment to Service Award, which is given to one student per campus in the state of Michigan for the breadth and/or depth of his/her community service.

Matt Brown of Midland, Katrina Bundy of Dayton, Ohio and Mary Katherine Miles of Breckenridge will receive the Heart and Soul Award, which recognize students for their time, effort and personal commitment through service.

MCC will honor the award recipients during an awards brunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Michigan Campus Compact promotes the education and commitment of Michigan college and university students to be civically engaged citizens, through creating and expanding academic, co-curricular and campus-wide opportunities for community service, service-learning and civic engagement.

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Alma encourages its students to look beyond Michigan’s boundaries. The Posey Global Leadership Scholarship provides opportunities for Alma College students to travel anywhere in the world and complete a self-designed project. Alma students have completed projects on topics ranging from teaching to public policy, in places from the Philippines to South Africa.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. William Gorton

Dr. William Gorton
Departments: Political Science

Public policy designed to alleviate human suffering rather than to increase happiness should be the goal of policymakers, argues William Gorton, an assistant professor of political science at Alma College.

“We know that certain factors such as unemployment, poverty and attenuated social connections make people unhappy, but we don’t know much about how to make already happy people happier,” says Dr. Gorton.