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KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- A. T. Still University receives national recognition for its dedication to community service.

ATSU joins a group of 400 colleges and universities in the nation named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

The recognition is the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering in the community among other things.

“Volunteerism and serving the underserved and helping the community is one of the values of A. T. Still University and KCOM.  We try to instill that in all of our students,” said A.T. Still University Assistant to the President Dr. Heinz Woehlk. “I think that the students that we have are already motivated to work in the community.  That’s one reason they want to become physicians, that’s one reason that they want to become primary care physicians in large part, and work with the underserved population."

Woehlk says this is the first year A. T. Still has received the award with distinction.
   
He says almost all of the 350 students on the Kirksville campus are involved in community service.
    
Last year the student body donated more than 13,000 volunteer hours in the local communities near its campuses in Kirksville and Mesa, Arizona.