CAMPUS COMPACT HONORS TWO UNH STUDENTS AND PROFESSOR FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE
Contact: Denise Hart
(603) 862-1462
Denise.Hart@unh.edu
May 7, 2004
DURHAM, N.H. -Two students and a faculty member from the University
of New Hampshire stepped up to the podium May 4 when the Campus
Compact for New Hampshire presented awards for community service. More
than 100 college students, higher education staff and administrators,
representatives of local K-12 schools and nonprofit organizations
attended the event to celebrate and recognize community service
activities at college campuses in the state, The event took place at
the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on the Saint Anselm College
campus in Manchester.
UNH was honored with recipients in three categories. The Presidents'
Leadership Award, recognizing individual students or student groups,
went to students Kaelee Copley and Nicole Decocq, both of Windham,
organizers of the UNH Relay for Life Chapter.
The Presidents' Good Steward Award, recognizing a faculty,
administrator or staff member, was awarded to Jason Bocarro, assistant
professor of recreation management and policy.
The Presidents' Community Partner Award, honoring a nonprofit, school
or other organization that has collaborated with the university in
community service, went to the Robin Albert on behalf of the Volunteer
Action Center of the United Way of the Greater Seacoast.
Copley is an Honors Program student active in many areas of campus
life. Decocq has community service experience with teenagers and
literacy programs. The UNH Relay for Life, an American Cancer Society
fundraiser event, took place May 1-2. Nearly 700 walkers raised more
than $72,000 for this first-time event.
Bocarro teaches a course called "Youth Culture and Programs" that
focuses on identifying
community and personal issues youth face in growing up.
Through this course, he created a
program that benefits the local community and creates
learning opportunities for students.
Campus Compact for New Hampshire is a consortium of 24 New
Hampshire college and university presidents in cooperation with
private sector partners who are united towards the integrating of
service, civic responsibility and community collaboration into all
academic, civic and student life facets of their institutions.
In the past year, college students from New Hampshire have
contributed more than 705,000 hours of service to their communities
leading voter registration drives, tutoring children, coordinating
after school activities for youth, cleaning up parks, mentoring
at-risk youth, building homes for the homeless, visiting the elderly
and countless other activities in New Hampshire and beyond.
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