Loyola College in Maryland has been named to the 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, with Distinction. Loyola joins 126 other schools honored at this level.

The award, which recognizes activities that took place during the 2006-07 academic year, highlights institutions that support innovative, effective and exemplary community service programs. Loyola was named to the Honor Roll last year, but this is the first time the College has attained the higher “With Distinction” designation.

“As a Catholic, Jesuit institution of higher education, Loyola has a profound commitment to developing and advancing programs designed to improve the local, national and global communities of which we are a part,” says College President Brian Linnane, S.J. “I am very pleased that the College’s extensive efforts in this regard and our extraordinarily successful community service initiatives have been recognized in this way."

Loyola’s application for the Honor Roll cited such wide-ranging programs as Project Mexico, a 10-day service immersion initiative in Tijuana; the College’s Habitat for Humanity house in the Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood; the Care-a-Van mobile meal distribution program; and its strong partnership with St. Mary of the Assumption School in the nearby Govans neighborhood.

The Honor Roll is jointly sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Live and Serve America program, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA Freedom Corps, Campus Compact and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.