The Messiah Difference
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Thanks for enabling Messiah students to impact lives in their communities and the world.
- In 2005-06, Messiah students contributed over 60,000 hours by voluntarily participating in local outreach projects as well as spring and summer missions and service trips. The following is a breakdown of student involvement in service:
- Into the Streets - 769 first-year & transfer students
- Service Day - 590 Special Olympic volunteers; 595 served with other projects
- Local Community Service - 389 participants
- National Service Trips - 145 participants
- Individual Summer Missions Trips - 41 students in more than 27 countries
- Summer Mission Trips - 35 students in 4 countries
- Spring Break Mission Trips - 21 students in 2 countries
- Messiah College was ranked ninth by the Institute of International Education among U.S. baccalaureate institutions for number of students studying abroad.
- In recognition of outstanding scholarship, Messiah College students have been awarded prestigious Rhodes, Fulbright, and Truman scholarships.
- The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) ranked Messiah’s accounting program seventh in the nation and first in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania based on our students’ performance on the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Exam.
- Messiah College , along with five other PA colleges and universities, has been selected to pilot “Solar Scholars,” an innovative solar energy program initiated by The Sustainable Energy Fund of Central Eastern PA. This partnership allows Messiah students and faculty to design, build, operate, and maintain a system of solar energy that will have a significant educational and conservational impact on Messiah’s campus.
- Messiah College ’s Harrisburg Institute for Community Research and Collaborative Partnerships recruits and equips college students and community partners to help reduce juvenile delinquency by improving at-risk youth’s academic skills and school attendance. This year, the Institute received a $200,000 federal grant, funding the “Youth Empowerment Initiative,” which will create a city-wide mentoring network for at-risk youth.
- Through the Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research, Professor Brian Nejmeh led students in his Database Applications course as they worked on the LEAP Project, a database application to help World Vision program managers track ministry activities and assess outcomes. Application of the project started last summer in Mali, West Africa by students Matt Hurne ’06 and Christopher Tierney ’06. The LEAP team recently gained the attention of World Vision’s IT and program assessment staff when they presented their work at World Vision offices in Washington, D.C. World Vision has given $44,000 to fund a prototype of the LEAP database in Mali and Sierra Leon during the 2006-07 academic year.
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Pictures
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Ryan Wilson in the Phillipines on a summer missions trip
Emily Thrush '06 in the Phillipines.
Students studying abroad.
Harrisburg Skyline.
Service Day 2006.
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