OWU Honored for Service

My alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan University, was recently honored with a prestigious award for community service.

OWU was one of three colleges in the nation to earn a Presidential Award for Excellence in General Community Service as part of the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement.

Wow, go OWU!

It was gratifying to hear that, especially while currently serving my community fulltime as an Americorps VISTA, because if you know my story, I had no clue where I wanted to go to college or what I wanted to study, but I ended up loving OWU and hearing this makes me feel like I ended up in the right place afterall.

In other news, The Daily Beast (the publication that recently deemed Cincinnati the craziest city in the US) recently named OWU one of the hottest colleges of the decade. Woot woot!

So proud :)