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Several of the 2015 Michigan Campus Compact Award winners are flanked by their Center for Civic Engagement mentors and collaborators Teresa Denton (far left) and Alison Geist (far right). The students are (l-r) Jasmine An, Hannah Bogard, Mele Makalo, and Rose Tobin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eight Kalamazoo College seniors–each of them Civic Engagement Scholars<\/strong><\/a> in K\u2019s Center for Civic Engagement<\/strong><\/a>–will receive Michigan Campus Compact (MiCC) Awards for their dedication to community service. Kacey Cook<\/strong> and Mele Makalo<\/strong> earned the MiCC Commitment to Service Award, recognizes up to two students per member campus in the state of Michigan for either the breadth or depth of their community involvement or service experiences. Only 31 students in the state will receive this award.<\/p>\n

Jasmine An<\/strong>, Hannah Bogard<\/strong>, Alejandra Castillo<\/strong>, Katherine Rapin<\/strong>, Andrea Satchwell<\/strong>, and Rose Tobin<\/strong> will receive the Heart and Soul Award, “given to students to recognize their time, effort, and personal commitment to their communities through service. “We are thrilled that our remarkable students are receiving these awards,” said Alison Geist, director of the Center for Civic Engagement. “We are even more thrilled that we have had the honor to work closely with them.” The eight will be feted at an awards brunch in East Lansing on April 18. MiCC<\/strong><\/a> promotes the education and commitment of Michigan college 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight Kalamazoo College seniors–each of them Civic Engagement Scholars in K\u2019s Center for Civic Engagement–will receive Michigan Campus Compact (MiCC) Awards for their dedication to community service. 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Center for Civic Engagement mentors and collaborators Teresa Denton (far left) and Alison Geist (far right). The students are (l-r) Jasmine An, Hannah Bogard, Mele Makalo, and Rose Tobin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eight Kalamazoo College seniors–each of them <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/servicelearning\/ces\/\"><strong>Civic Engagement Scholars<\/strong><\/a> in K\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/servicelearning\/\"><strong>Center for Civic Engagement<\/strong><\/a>–will receive Michigan Campus Compact (MiCC) Awards for their dedication to community service. <strong>Kacey Cook<\/strong> and <strong>Mele Makalo<\/strong> earned the MiCC Commitment to Service Award, recognizes up to two students per member campus in the state of Michigan for either the breadth or depth of their community involvement or service experiences. Only 31 students in the state will receive this award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jasmine An<\/strong>, <strong>Hannah Bogard<\/strong>, <strong>Alejandra Castillo<\/strong>, <strong>Katherine Rapin<\/strong>, <strong>Andrea Satchwell<\/strong>, and <strong>Rose Tobin<\/strong> will receive the Heart and Soul Award, “given to students to recognize their time, effort, and personal commitment to their communities through service. “We are thrilled that our remarkable students are receiving these awards,” said Alison Geist, director of the Center for Civic Engagement. “We are even more thrilled that we have had the honor to work closely with them.” The eight will be feted at an awards brunch in East Lansing on April 18. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micampuscompact.org\/\"><strong>MiCC<\/strong><\/a> promotes the education and commitment of Michigan college 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.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}