Robert B. Menschel Public Service Internship Award
Do you have an internship with a nonprofit organization for 8 or more weeks during Summer 2023? If so, we encourage and invite full-time matriculated undergraduate students to apply for this $2,500 award!
The Robert B. Menschel Public Service Intern Fund, administered by the Shaw Center, was established by Richard and Ronay Menschel to support undergraduate students who are working in the not-for-profit world. The fund supplements the income the students earn, making their internships more competitive with work in the for-profit sector. Students have worked at a wide range of nonprofits and publics locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.
Summer 2023 Application Deadline is Friday, June 23, 2023.
Please submit the application, essays, resume, and organization’s IRS Form 990 via email at ShawCenter@syr.edu or to the Shaw Center at 111 Waverly Avenue, Suite 102. If you have any questions, please email ShawCenter@syr.edu.
The Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship
The Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship recognizes two individual students—one undergraduate and one graduate—who have significantly engaged in their community as part of a dynamic learning experience. Syracuse University embraces this commitment to promote positive change that simultaneously advances knowledge and meets real-world needs, magnifying impact and interconnectedness.
Nominations should demonstrate student commitment to promote public engagement and scholarship that enhances learning and helps to meet real-world needs. Please provide examples of: leadership—especially those that have motivated others; innovative scholarship and community engagement and impact on student learning; and the importance or impact the student’s work has had for the particular agency, program and clients, as well as for the student.
Thomas Erlich Award
Remembrance Scholars Syracuse University
Scholarship in Action Merit Award Application
Syracuse University named to 2013-2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction
For consecutive years since the 2006 inception, Syracuse University was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, one of only twelve institutions in New York State to receive the award with distinction. The Honor Roll recognizes colleges and universities nationwide that support innovative and effective community service and service learning programs. The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). The CNCS is a federal agency that improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. The Corporation administers Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, a program that supports service-learning in schools, institutions of higher education, and community-based organizations.
