Griswold-Zepp Award

Psychology major Sydney Hinnant partnered with McDaniel’s Active Minds student organization, which is dedicated to promoting mental health awareness, to create pop-up mental health spaces on campus, designed for students to destress and relax, as well as organized various events for students, including a meditation talk, yoga, making stress balls, animal therapy, and a question-and-answer session with the Wellness Center.

The McDaniel College chapter of Habitat for Humanity received the Griswold-Zepp Award to hold events that benefit the Habitat for Humanity of Carroll County, which seeks to bring people together to build homes, community, and hope.

The McDaniel College Progressive Student Union was selected to receive the Griswold-Zepp Award to donate to the Westminster Rescue Mission as well as create care kits for the Karis Home, which provides emergency short-term help for homeless women and children in Baltimore. 

The initiative began the process of building a greenhouse in the McDaniel campus garden space. The greenhouse will not only be used by McDaniel students, but for community outreach with the Boys and Girls Club. Educational programming will follow in the years to come.

C.A.S.E will allow for the training of students to serve as peer counselors to student victims of sexual harassment or assault. Peer counselors will receive training through a number of in-person and online sessions, which will prepare them to assist and support victims during the reporting and healing process. Peer counselors will also give presentations to student organizations to introduce them to sex and consent education.

This project will support increasing composting efforts on campus. The Club will provide every apartment with a kitchen access to a compost pot and outdoor bin. To further increase awareness, an educational workshop was held. The workshop consisted of several activities centered around how to live in an eco-friendly manner.