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Carmen Johnson, a 2011 graduate of LC, gets her head shorn for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which raises money to find cures for childhood cancers.


Serving Lynchburg and Beyond V


olunteer service is part of the ethos at Lynchburg College, where 700 stu- dents contributed nearly 60,000 hours


of community service in 2010-11. “Community service allows students to


go out into the community and gain real-life experience and an under- standing of the challenges in their community,” said Chris Gibbons, director of SERVE, LC’s volunteer program. “It also helps ig- nite their own passion for service.” In addition to serving as


tutors, feeding the hungry, and providing sweat equity for a number of local schools and organizations, LC stu- dents provide substantial economic support in the Greater Lynchburg area and beyond. Students, faculty, and staff helped raise


a Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Virginia Carnival on the LC campus. Such service also earned Lynchburg Col-


“We honor this value through teaching its fundamental importance to our students; we embrace this value by faculty, staff, and students laboring together in service to a community centered in the City of Lynchburg that radiates to our brothers and sisters across the globe.”


lege a place on the national President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2010. The Honor Roll, launched in 2006, recognized 641 colleges and universities nationwide that support innovative and ef- fective community service and service-learning pro- grams, and is the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volun- teering, service-learning, and civic engagement. LC, which also made the honor roll in 2006,


more than $72,000 for projects in 2010-11, ranging from $26,000 for the American Can- cer Society’s Relay for Life to $500 for Jubilee Family Development Center in Lynchburg. Students took charge of projects to raise


money for wells in Uganda, supplies for a local military unit serving in Afghanistan, money for local homeless shelters, and to staff


2008, and 2009, was one of 11 colleges and universities in Virginia on the list. In addi- tion, Emory & Henry College received one of six presidential awards for general community service, while The College of William and Mary, Mary Baldwin College, and Washing- ton and Lee University made the presidential honor roll with distinction. “One of the eight core values adopted by the


Lynchburg College Board of Trustees is ‘com- munity,’” LC President Kenneth R. Garren


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