ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ senior Sarah Babcock received the third annual North Carolina Campus Compact Community Impact Student Award during the organization’s Nov. 8 conference at High Point University in High Point, N.C.
Twenty-seven college students across the state received the award for making significant, innovative contributions to their campus’ efforts to address local community needs.
State Sen. Vernon Malone of Wake County and Lisa Keyne, the Compact’s executive director, presented the award to Babcock before an audience of more than 250 college students and guests representing 33 higher education institutions.
Babcock, a biology major with a minor in non-violence studies, has been involved in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Service-Learning Community. She started and led the Cambodia Service Trip, which she is now working to make sustainable after she leaves ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.
As a leader within ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Volunteers!, Babcock has worked to develop leadership skills among her co-leaders and to build awareness and advocacy among those serving on campus.
North Carolina Campus Compact is a statewide coalition of higher education presidents and chancellors established to encourage and support campus engagement in the community.