COLLEGE HOSTS SERVICE-LEARNING CONFERENCE posted 2/18/05
Michigan educators learn about bringing service to the classroom

Adrian College hosted the ninth annual Michigan Campus Compact Institute on Service-Learning Feb. 17-18 in Ridge Student Center. Over 250 faculty, college administrators, and K-12 teachers from across the state traveled to campus to learn about how to incorporate service into their classes and programs.

At the awards reception on Thursday night, Adrian College President Stanley Caine received Michigan Campus Compact’s Lifetime Achievement Award. (more)

The title of the conference was “Deepening the Commitment to Student Engagement through Quality Teaching.” It included workshops, dialogue, and presentations on the ways students can impact their communities, and how service can in turn aid in the education of students.

Adrian professors were involved as presenters.

Michigan Campus Compact is an organization that 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. Adrian College is involved with the organization in several ways, and Adrian professors have been recognized by the organization in the past.

More information is available at www.micampuscompact.org/institute.asp.

PRESIDENT CAINE RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Michigan Campus Compact honors him for supporting community service

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Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Stanley P. Caine, president of Adrian College, is this year’s recipient of the MCC Lifetime Achievement Award.

In his 16 years at Adrian College, Dr. Stanley Caine has shown an exceptional commitment to community service and the incorporation of service-learning into the Adrian curriculum. Dr. Caine has served on the Michigan Campus Compact Board of Directors since Adrian College joined MCC in 1990 and served as the Board’s vice chair in 2001.

Dr. Caine has participated in numerous community-enriching activities throughout his career as Adrian’s president. He was instrumental in the creation of Adrian’s Community Plunge, a program which exposes all freshman students to the enriching benefits of community service. During Welcome Week, the incoming students learn about the Adrian area through hands-on activities. Without Dr. Caine’s vision and efforts, this wonderful student opportunity may never have been realized. Dr. Caine has also supported fund-raising efforts such as the Annual Adrian College Dance Marathon, even offering to dance one year.

Dr. Caine has shown great commitment to programs such as Habitat for Humanity, taking time out of his own Florida vacation to visit and support students spending their spring break participating in Habitat’s Collegiate Challenge. Dr. Caine also has shown exemplary commitment to Cambios, Inc., an organization dedicated to the celebration of diversity and elimination of discrimination by providing educational programs and resources. In 2004, Dr. Caine nominated Cambios for a Governor’s Exemplary Community Service Program Award.

Dr. Caine has long encouraged his faculty and staff at Adrian to apply for grants in relation to community service and service-learning. In this way, Dr. Caine has provided a supportive environment in which Adrian educators can continue to enrich the community through civic engagement. As Dr. Caine is in his last year at Adrian, his inspiring legacy will serve to encourage those who follow him to promote and support community-enriching programs and activities.

Dr. Stanley P. Caine was formally honored during an evening awards reception Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005. This ceremony took place in the Adrian-Tobias Room at Adrian College as part of the Ninth Annual Institute on Service-Learning: Deepening the Commitment to Student Engagement through Quality Teaching.

Michigan Campus Compact is a state-level non-profit organization that 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.

[Award release from Michigan Campus Compact]