NRCCUA NEWS!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12/21/2007

Excellence in Service Learning Award Winners Announced

My College Options and American Humanics, Inc. are pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 Excellence in Service Learning Award. Working together to identify a student and a high school in the Greater Kansas City Area that exemplify outstanding involvement in community service, the two organizations have selected Elizabeth Hardin Nelson of Notre Dame de Sion High School and Grandview Alternative High School as the Student and School awardees, respectively. These awards will be presented at the 60th Anniversary Celebration of the American Humanics Management Institute on January 3, 2008.

In learning that she had been chosen as the award winner, Ms. Nelson said, “I am thrilled! I have been helping out at Blessed Sacrament (a local home and daycare center for unwed mothers and their children) since I was about 7 years old. For me, community service is a way of life.”

Pat Spalding, principal of Grandview Alternative High School, calls GAHS “…a small school with a big heart…”. Amy Cameron, Service Learning Coordinator, adds “…We are proud of our students…Many of them have so little themselves, yet they understand the concept of a ‘global community.”

My College Options—a FREE online college and career planning service for high school students—is a leader in linking colleges and universities with high school students whose needs and interests match what the institutions offer. Visit the site today at www.mycollegeoptions.org.

American Humanics is a national alliance of colleges, universities, and nonprofits. Its mission is to educate, prepare, and certify professionals to strengthen and lead nonprofit organizations. A number of local and regional colleges have AH programs and many Greater Kansas City Area residents are counted among AH alumni and current interns.