LYNN – The Corporation for National and Community Service has named North Shore Community College to its President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for 2009, recognizing the many community service efforts the college participates in throughout the North Shore.Launched in 2006 and overseen by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the honor roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for community service both in and out of the classroom. Honorees are chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovation of service and the extent to which the school offers academic service related courses.The President’s Honor Roll is broken up into three parts, six schools are named Presidential Awardees, the top honor given by the corporation, followed by several schools in each state that are named to the President’s Honor Roll with Distinction and the President’s Honor Roll.NSCC was one of 22 Massachusetts schools named to the President’s Honor Roll, joining Endicott College in Beverly on the North Shore.”In this time of economic distress, we need volunteers in our communities more than ever. College students represent an enormous pool of idealism and energy to help tackle some of our toughest challenges,” said Stephen Goldsmith, vice chairman of the board of directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service. “We salute North Shore Community College for making community service a campus priority and thank the millions of college students who are helping renew America through service to others.”Several of the notable achievements that contributed to NSCC receiving this distinction included the Project Youth Empowerment and Success Program (YES), which offered three cycles of a structured after-school program for 84 Lynn middle school students at risk of gang involvement, and Dr. Seuss Reader Day, where 14 students from NSCC traveled to Plum Cove Elementary School in Gloucester to read to students.The school has also organized a variety of forums and speakers at both campuses to recognize everything from human rights to Black History Month. Among the most successful of the forums is the Anti-Violence meeting, led by a 15-member student focused activity group. The event was attended by more than 500 middle school students and local legislators as well as NSCC students, faculty and staff.Faculty and administrators, including North Shore President Wayne Burton, have also been instrumental in the cleanup effort following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Burton led a group of students and faculty to some of the city’s most ravaged neighborhoods in January of 2008, where they spent a week gutting and renovating homes devastated by the hurricane.The college’s distinction will remain in place for a year and the school will be eligible for the President’s Honor Roll in early 2010.