Service-Learning Highlights

The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, launched in 2006, annually highlights 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, measurable outcomes in the communities they serve.  St. Cloud State University has received this prestigious honor again for 2015!

St. Cloud State University received this classification in 2010 and has submitted the necessary documentation to apply for renewal in 2020.  The Carnegie Foundation's Classification for Community Engagement is an elective classification, meaning that it is based on voluntary participation by institutions. The elective classification involves data collection and documentation of important aspects of institutional mission, identity and commitments, and requires substantial effort invested by participating institutions. It is an institutional classification; it is not for systems of multiple campuses or for part of an individual campus. The classification is not an award. It is an evidence-based documentation of institutional practice to be used in a process of self-assessment and quality improvement.  The documentation is reviewed to determine whether the institution qualifies for recognition as a community engaged institution.

Community engagement describes collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.  The purpose of community engagement is the partnership of college and university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good.

2019 Presidents' Student Leadership Award

Kappa Phi Omega Sorority

2019 Presidents' Community Partner Award

Conflict Resolution Center St. Cloud

2019 Presidents' Civic Engagement Steward Award

Professor Chris Lehman

Huskies Showcase celebrates University and community research, creative works and scholarship across all disciplines at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Driven by the dimensions of Our Husky Compact, Huskies Showcase provides…

• An integrated venue to showcase student engagement and achievement through a variety of high impact practices
• Faculty, staff, students, alumni and community partners the opportunity to engage with campus to support and celebrate student success
• The campus community an opportunity to engage with industry, employers and regional communities to prepare St. Cloud State graduates for life, work and citizenship in the 21st century
• A venue to showcase distinctive student experiences to recruit future Huskies