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Chancellor Zimpher honors SUNY New Paltz students for leadership, excellence

Melissa Kaczmarek

Five SUNY New Paltz students have been selected for the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, based on their distinctive academic, athletic, leadership, service, and other achievements and contributions.  The awards were conferred in a ceremony in Albany, N.Y., on April 2, which President Donald P. Christian and Vice President for Student Affairs L. David Rooney attended.  The award recipients are:

  • Brittany K. Noble ’15, Early Childhood/Childhood Education B-6
  • Alyssa Stock ’15, Adolescent Education in Earth Science
  • Miriam Ward ’15, History/Digital Media Production
  • Anne E. Jacobs ’15, Communication Media/Media Management
  • Fatima Ismail ’15, Mathematics

“It is my highest honor to recognize the achievements of SUNY students who have excelled not only academically but as leaders on their campuses and in their communities,” said Chancellor Zimpher. “Students receiving this award are to be commended for their excellence as role models, artists, scholar athletes, and civic volunteers. Their leadership can serve as an inspiration to all SUNY students and a tremendous point of pride for the entire SUNY family. Congratulations to all of the students receiving the 2015 award.”

About the Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence
The Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence was created in 1997 to recognize students who have best demonstrated, and have been recognized for, the integration of academic excellence with accomplishments in the areas of leadership, athletics, community service, creative and performing arts, campus involvement, or career achievement.

Each year, SUNY campus presidents establish a selection committee, which reviews the accomplishments of exemplary students. Nominees are then forwarded to the Chancellor’s Office for a second round of review. Finalists are then recommended to the Chancellor to become recipients of the award. Each recipient receives a framed certificate and medallion, which is traditionally worn at commencement.