The New College Community Partner Award is presented to an organization affiliated with New College or on an individual basis. Nominations are solicited from St. Edward’s University faculty members in the spring, and the recipient is chosen by a committee made up of New College representatives.

New College offers students the opportunity to earn credit through recognition of prior learning and other options, including seminar, individualized/directed study, and online courses. New College is committed to teaching excellence with an emphasis on the liberal arts, critical thinking, values analysis and multicultural perspectives.

In the decade that Silverberg has been a member of the St. Edward’s community, he has expressed an extensive commitment to the New College program. His contributions include: teaching Nonprofit Management in Human Services program since 2001, being involved in the creation of the Nostra Aetate Award for Interfaith Understanding since 2003, taking an interest in supporting the professional careers of Human Service majors, chairing the New College Advisory Council since 2003, and the committee for the new New College dean earlier this year.

Silverberg, a native New Yorker, currently leads the Center for Community-Based & Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College, and the Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations. In addition to his work at St. Edward’s, Silverberg is the managing editor of the Nonprofit and Organizational Development at Groundbreaking Press.