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INDIANAPOLIS -The U.S. Senate Tuesday (Oct. 2) confirmed President Bush's nomination of Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky, a professor with the IU Center on Philanthropy at IUPUI, to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

The Corporation is the parent organization of AmeriCorps, the National Senior Service Corps, and Learn and Serve America, programs that engage 1.5 million Americans in service each year. He is expected to assume his responsibilities in mid-October.

Lenkowsky currently serves as professor of philanthropic studies and public policy in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and adjunct professor of political science in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He also is a research associate of the IU Center on Philanthropy.

"These are unprecedented times in America," said Lenkowsky. "In the wake of the recent tragedies we are seeing a rebirth of civic duty, patriotism and the spirit of service. Americans have seen the needs and answered the calls for help. It is now up to us at the Corporation for National and Community Service to not only recognize the accomplishments of the American people, but to continue to engage them in the work of changing lives and strengthening communities."

Lenkowsky is a leading scholar on philanthropy and volunteering and has been actively involved in bipartisan national and community service initiatives for more than a decade. President Clinton twice appointed him to the Corporation's board of directors and former President George H. Bush named him to the Corporation's predecessor organization, the Commission on National and Community Service.

The IUPUI professor also previously served as president of the Hudson Institute and of the Institute for Educational Affairs. He was also deputy director of the United States Information Agency, a research fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University and director of research for the Smith Richardson Foundation. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and received a doctoral degree from Harvard University.

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