The Corporation for National and Community Service has named Hollins University to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth.

Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award are chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovativeness of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses. 

The Hollins has a long-standing commitment to community service both locally and internationally and offers a variety of opportunities for students to get involved, including:

• Living in the Sandusky Service House, where residents are required to perform at least five hours of volunteer work per month and promote service activities on campus and in the community.
• Participating in one of several academic courses that incorporate an element of civic involvement within the curriculum that takes students into the Roanoke Valley.
• Spending Spring Break helping an impoverished community in Jamaica, where students teach in the school system, work with the local infirmary, and refurbish community buildings. The Jamaica Service Project celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
  

The Honor Roll is jointly sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service through its Learn and Serve America program. A federal agency, the Corporation also administers Senior Corps and AmeriCorps. Other Honor Roll sponsors include the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA Freedom Corps, and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.