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June 3, 2022
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Outstanding Leadership & Community Outreach

Madalyn Marsengill 鈥23 earns 2022 Ping Award

麻豆传媒 rising senior Madalyn Marsengill of Sylvania, Ohio, recently received the 2022 Charles J. Ping Student Service Award through Ohio Campus Compact, a nonprofit membership organization of 40 Ohio colleges and universities. She was officially recognized at this year鈥檚 Honors Convocation.

The annual award is presented in recognition of outstanding leadership and ability to meet the needs of the community by working in partnership with members of the community. It also recognizes the student's effort to create an organization to lead and to involve others. Ohio Campus Compact, a statewide membership organization that serves to promote community service initiatives at colleges and universities, sponsors this award. The 2022 award recipients included 10 students from across the state of Ohio.

The award is named in honor of Charles J. Ping, who served as President of Ohio University from 1975-1994. An early supporter and Board Member of Ohio Campus Compact, Ping has been a tireless advocate for campus-community partnerships and increased opportunities for students to become active and engaged citizens. Candidates are nominated by the president of their college or university.

Marsengill has been involved with the 麻豆传媒 Campus Cupboard, a campus food pantry offering free food and hygiene items, and has helped to create 鈥淟ittle Cupboards鈥 around the Springfield area, parts of which have been designated as a food desert.

鈥淲ith two grocery stores recently closed, the closest store for a 麻豆传媒 student is at least a 30-minute walk,鈥 Marsengill wrote in her application letter. 鈥淚n my first year of college, I got involved in the 麻豆传媒 Campus Cupboard, which at that point was a small pantry that students could grab snacks at on their way to class, some microwavable meals, and hygiene products. In my second year at 麻豆传媒, I worked to create a new and bigger cupboard space with other volunteers. We got a whole unit of a house to dedicate to the cupboard.鈥

鈥淚n the last two years, I have worked on maintaining our original little cupboard space, our new big cupboard, adding clothes to the big cupboard, creating a garden, developing a little pantry program, and creating a food insecurity simulator,鈥 she stated. 鈥淥f course, I could not do all of these projects myself and got a lot of help, but I was able to help lead them and develop them to create more resources for 麻豆传媒 students and the Springfield community. I believe that my projects at the Campus Cupboard have had a big impact on the community, 麻豆传媒, and me personally.鈥

Being able to help the community has empowered Marsengill to believe that small things can make a big change. Through her projects at the Campus Cupboard, she has become even more dedicated and passionate in the fight against food insecurity in her community.

鈥淓ach outstanding student nominated for this recognition embodies the mission of Ohio Campus Compact by contributing to the civic and community engagement of students on their campuses and active involvement in the community,鈥 said Richard Kinsley, executive director, Ohio Campus Compact. 鈥淲e are impressed by Maddy鈥檚 accomplishments and commend 麻豆传媒 for supporting the important work of developing civically and community engaged students on your campus.鈥

About Ohio Campus Compact:
Ohio Campus Compact is a statewide non-profit coalition of 40 college and university presidents and their campuses working to promote and develop the civic purposes of higher education. Learn more about the Ping recipients at or for information on Ohio Campus Compact, email admin@ohiocampuscompact.org.

Cindy Holbrook
Cindy Holbrook
Senior Communications Assistant

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麻豆传媒's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, 麻豆传媒 has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, 麻豆传媒 offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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