League Reaffirmation - Johnson County Community College

Chapter 6
State and National Recognition
The college as a whole and its faculty, staff, students and
programs have been honored locally, regionally and nationally.
Program awards
Kansas Award
of Excellence
In October 2003, JCCC was
one of four recipients of the
2003 Kansas Excellence
Award, the third and
highest level of recognition
for quality given by the
Kansas Award for
Excellence Foundation.
The KAE award is
presented to organizations
that have demonstrated
through their practices and
achievements the highest
and most consistent level of
excellence. Organizations
recognized at this level are
considered role models for
other Kansas institutions.
In addition, sections 1 and 2
of the document the college
submitted for the award
were named best of
category. Section 1 dealt
with leadership, section 2
with strategic planning.
Higher Education Community
Service Honor Roll
In March 2007, JCCC was named to the President’s Higher Education
Community Service Honor Roll, a program designed to encourage and
increase public awareness of community service by college students and to
recognize and promote exemplary programs and effective practices in higher
education community service. JCCC was recognized for these projects:
• Las Pintas, where students in the nursing, respiratory care, dental hygiene
and early childhood education programs work with the residents of an
impoverished community outside Guadalajara, Mexico.
• The civic honors programs, whereby students are honored at graduation
for their civic education and community experience.
• A project for SafeHome, in which interior design students volunteered
their skills to design five rooms for the shelter’s new facility.
• A project for City Union Mission, in which interactive media
students created a Web site for the mission’s thrift store.
• Hurricane relief, for which the college’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, an
international honor society for two­year schools, organized a fund­raiser
that raised more than $2,000. In addition, 11 students traveled to New
Orleans over spring break 2006 to help with the city’s rebuilding process.
JCCC provides students with service­learning opportunities, a method of
experiential education that combines practical experience in the community
with the academic theory of the classroom. Since JCCC’s service­learning
program began in fall 1993, more than 6,000 students have provided more
than 90,000 hours of service at more than 100 community sites in the
metropolitan Kansas City area.
“Student volunteers consistently report increased self­confidence,
empowerment, achievement and a greater understanding of diverse
and often unfamiliar segments of the community. They learn they
can make a difference.”
– Marcia Shideler, coordinator, Community­Based Learning
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