The Corporation for National and Community Service has recognized the University with a position on the Presidential Honor Roll for Community Service.With 179 service-learning classes through 35 departments and community-service programs such as Volunteer LSU, the community service is “definitely a huge part of LSU Culture,” said Mallory Trochesset, Campus Life coordinator.”In regards to how we feel about the importance of this honor, I think that it’s such a significant honor to be recognized in the [Presidential Honor Roll for Community Service],” Trochesset said. Jan Shoemaker, director of the Center for Community Engagement, Learning and Leadership, said the University has received the distinction every year since 2006, and the University is among nine schools throughout the state to receive the honor.Shoemaker did not know the number of schools across the country honored with this distinction.”It’s certainly a very fine distinction to be recognized for the hard work that our faculty and students are involved in around the community,” Shoemaker said. “It reinforces our efforts … it challenges us as a University to be an even better citizen.”Shoemaker called the University’s service-learning program “unique in the variety of service” — which Shoemaker said spans from mass communication classes to biology classes.Siobhan Dugan, public affairs specialist with the Corporation for National and Community Services, said schools throughout the country are honored by Presidential  Honor Roll based on the level of “student involvement in a service and impact in that service.””In the past, LSU has done a tremendous amount of that following Hurricane Katrina,” Dugan said of the University’s past efforts.Volunteer LSU worked in close collaboration with CCELL to help make the recognition possible, according to Trochesset.”Volunteer LSU is committed to upholding that status,” Trochesset said, naming two upcoming community service projects.Trochesset named he next two projects Volunteer LSU is working to facilitate as an upcoming trip to Galveston, Texas, and their annual spring project with the Mid-City Redevelopment Alliance.Volunteer LSU is targeting damage to Galveston from Hurricane Ike as an attempt to repay Texas’ support in the wake of Hurricane Gustav, Trochesset said.—Contact Lindsey Meaux at [email protected]