ESF Habitat for Humanity Honored by SU Chancellor

Award cites community involvement
4/6/2011

Left to Right: Dr. Doug Morrison, ESF Habitat for Humanity Faculty Advisor; Paul Stanley, past Executive Director of ESF Habitat for Humanity; Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor; John Giammatteo, Chair of the Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship Selection Committee

SUNY-ESF's participation in Habitat for Humanity was selected to receive a Syracuse University Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship and feted at a celebration dinner March 30.

SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor said the ESF-SU participation wasselected for "outstanding work in improving the quality of life in the greater Syracuse community," and because it exemplifies "the highest ideal of sustained, quality engagement with citizens in our community."

The joint SU-ESF Habitat for Humanity Chapter has a long record of community service including a new home under construction on Gifford Street in Syracuse and a new home constructed and dedicated on Elliott Street in 2010. In December 2010, more than two dozen chapter members spent winter break helping victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. This past March, nearly 80 students traveled to several locations in Florida and elsewhere to help with Habitat for Humanity building projects.

Habitat held its third annual Shack-A-Thon in October 2010, hosting 12 SU-ESF student organizations that constructed their own "shacks" and raised more than $6,000.