Award for Excellence in Service Learning 

This award recognizes faculty who are involved in planning and implementing service learning projects that mentor students who are volunteering with non-profit organizations and businesses in the community as part of their course work.  The recipients of this award will be recognized for their response to a compelling community need by developing students’ academic skills and sense of civic responsibility through engagement in organized service and reflection. 

The recipient of the Golden Apple Award 2003 for Excellence in Service Learning is Assistant Professor of Nursing, Jeanine Tweedie. 

Jeanine Tweedie is truly committed to the challenges of making a difference in the learning of her students. Through service learning opportunities, students work on a variety of activities, from participating in Senior Olympics and senior health fairs, providing one to one companionship to seniors in the community, engaging in health teaching throughout the Island, and performing community service both on Oahu and in Kalaupapa, Molokai. 

Students learn about caring for their communities and clients, the broader social issues that lead to health disparities, the root causes of stereotyping, and moral insight into the complexity and ambiguity of circumstances and problems confronting people and their communities. 

Jeanine Tweedie is a very thoughtful educator with a broad appreciation of the complexities of the human condition. In the face of a rapidly changing health care environment, she strives to connect students with real-life situations and create opportunities to help students know that they are an integral part of their community, country, and world who can help make a difference.