UCLA’s Center for Community Learning was named to the the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency, established the honor roll in 2006 to highlight "the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems and placing more students on a lifelong path of civic engagement by recognizing institutions that achieve meaningful, measureable outcomes in the communities they serve."
The Center for Community Learning, which supports civic engagement for UCLA undergraduates and faculty through the integration of teaching, research and service alongside community partners, has been named to the honor roll every year since 2006, and to the honor roll with distinction both this year and last.
"Communities are strengthened when we all come together, and we are encouraged that these institutions and their students have made service a priority," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in announcing this year's honor roll.
CNCS is a federal agency that engages more than 4 million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and the Social Innovation Fund, and leads President Obama's national call-to-service initiative, United We Serve. The corporation manages the honor roll program in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the American Council on Education and Campus Compact.
