May 2018 College Accomplishments
• In the 2017-18 Academic Year, students contributed
172,000 hours of volunteer work.
• The program has strong diversity with 35 percent
representation from African-American, Hispanic,
Asian and Native American students.
• More than 135 courses and 350 course sections now
integrate service learning with academic study.
• The college has more than 500 partner agencies
and organizations that give students volunteer
opportunities.
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Some major projects with student volunteers
included the following: Habitat for Humanity
home building; Operation American Standing to
support deployed troops; and Junior Achievement
work-readiness skills and financial literacy in K-12
classrooms.
• Eastern Florida received the 2017 Florida Campus
Compact Engaged Campus of the Year Award for
state colleges for its distinguished service.
• Titusville Campus student Matt Hudson received the
2018 Florida Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellows
Award for outstanding academic performance and
volunteer work.
• The EFSC program has been repeatedly named to
the President’s Higher Education Community Service
Honor Roll at the White House.
Stellar Athletic Season
EFSC athletic teams continued their impressive
performance on the state and national levels with nearly
all teams reaching state and national championship
tournaments. (Student Enrollment, Diversity Initiatives,
Community Awareness)
Highlights:
• Overall, 10 of the 11 teams made it to the postseason
with the women’s soccer, men’s basketball, men’s
golf and men’s and women’s tennis teams all
finishing in the top eight in their respective national
tournaments.
• Women’s soccer team made it to the national
tournament semifinals for the fifth time. It was the
seventh straight season the women’s team has been
in the national tournament.
• Women’s Soccer midfielder Katie Lockwood was
named National Player of the Year.
• The men’s basketball team finished third in the
nation with a 30-5 record. For the second straight
season, they finished in the top three in the NJCAA
national tournament.
• The Titans have now made the national basketball
tournament four straight seasons and eight times
overall.
• The men’s and women’s tennis teams made their
first appearances in the national tournament and
both came away with top-six finishes in the nation.
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Women’s tennis had two players reach the
semifinals, and men’s tennis had its doubles team
reach the semifinals.
• The men’s golf team reached the NJCAA Division I
National Championship Tournament for the 16th
straight season.
• It is the fourth straight season that Titans golf placed
in the top 10 in the national tournament and fifth
time in past six years.
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