Davidson, North Carolina -  The Corporation for National and Community Service has named Davidson College to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. This is the third year that Davidson College has received this distinction.

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 were 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 Honor Roll is jointly sponsored by the Corporation, through its Learn and Serve America program, and the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA Freedom Corps, and the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. 

In congratulating the winners, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said, "Americans rely on our higher education system to prepare students for citizenship and the workforce.  We look to institutions like these to provide leadership in perntering with local schools to shape the civic, democrative, and ecnomic future of our country."