For the second time in as many years a Wartburg College program has received the Engaged Campus Award for Leadership from Iowa Campus Compact.

The college’s High School Leadership Institute will be recognized Friday, May 29, during a ceremony in Des Moines. The award recognizes individuals or groups for their work toward Campus Compact’s mission of deepening and strengthening campus civic and community engagement. Wartburg’s Community Builders adult volunteers received the honor in 2014, the award’s inaugural year.

“The High School Leadership Institute is working to build the kind of leaders we need to address community issues,” said Emily Shields, executive director of Iowa Campus Compact. “The service participants have engaged in has had a lasting impact on those students and their communities.”

Launched in 2005, the High School Leadership Institute, which operates under the college’s Institute for Leadership Education, has served more then 200 high school students from 15 states. During the weeklong program, students receive leadership development and go on a service trip to Chicago. Students also plan service projects that must be implemented in their home communities.

“Bill Soesbe (HSLI director) and I are proud of the commitment to and works of civic engagement our high school and college students have demonstrated over the past nine years,” said Fred Waldstein, director of the Institute for Leadership Education. “We are pleased that the quality and impact of the program has been recognized by Iowa Campus Compact. We are especially excited that we will have our largest cohort of high school and college students participating this summer.”

Iowa Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university presidents devoted to fulfilling the public and civic purposes of higher education.