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MCC Honors 12 Students for Community Service

Twelve Alma College students will be rewarded for their dedication and commitment to community service during the 12th annual Outstanding Student Service Awards April 5 at the Holiday Inn-South in Lansing.

Each year, Michigan Campus Compact awards students from member colleges and universities across the state for their outstanding commitment to service-learning and civic engagement.  Awardees were selected from a nomination pool of nearly 600 students. This year, 159 students from 23 member campuses will receive awards.
 
Bay City junior Drew Emge will receive the Michigan Humanitarian Award, which is given to undergraduate students for their innovation and leadership in community service. Michigan Campus Compact gives only three of these awards statewide each year.

“Drew is a remarkable student leader who is committed to service to his campus, his community and beyond,” says Anne Ritz, service learning coordinator at Alma College. “In my opinion, Drew will remain a life-long, civically engaged citizen.”

As a Michigan Humanitarian Award recipient, Emge will be nominated for the national Campus Compact 2008 Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award, which recognizes five students for their innovative strategies in addressing community issues and needs and their efforts to build and sustain this work among their peers and within their institutions.

Unionville junior William Allen will receive the Commitment to Service Award. This award is given to one student per member campus in the state of Michigan for their commitment to community service. Only 23 students will receive this award.
 
Eleven Alma students will receive the Heart and Soul Award, which is given to students to recognize their time, effort and personal commitment through service. Heart and Soul recipients are Emge, Lansing junior Kerry Dembowski, Lapeer junior Christopher Francis, Alma senior Tracey Fuller, Midland junior Benjamin Kosal, Grand Rapids senior Sadie LaPonsie, Frankenmuth senior Nicholas Maciulis, Buchanan senior Colleen O’Toole, Linden junior Kailey Ruggirello, Monroe senior Terra Teague and Portland senior Amanda Weber.

MCC will honor the award recipients at an awards brunch April 5 at the Holiday Inn-South in Lansing 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 College is one of the first undergraduate colleges in the United States to belong to the International Criminal Court Student Network (ICCSN). Created in 2006 by students at the London School of Economics, the ICCSN aims to promote the work of the ICC and increase knowledge of international criminal law. Alma joins Duke University School of Law, the University of Cambridge and other institutions in a global community that connects students who share an interest in the ICC.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. Stephany Slaughter

Dr. Stephany Slaughter
Departments: Spanish

When Stephany Slaughter went to college, she planned to major in French and English with a teaching concentration. But around the time she discovered her college didn’t offer a study aboard program in France, a spot opened up to study abroad in Spain.

“I’ve always been addicted to languages and travel,” the assistant professor of Spanish says, “but the switch from French to Spanish was really accidental. The spot opened up in November, and by January I was in Spain.”