Albany – SUNY Chancellor John R. Ryan will honor 283 college
students from SUNY campuses throughout the state with the 2007 Chancellor’s
Award for Student Excellence, Wednesday, April 18. The Awards are given out
annually to students who earn a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.78 or higher and
record a significant contribution to their campus or local community.
“Recipients of this year’s awards have excelled academically and, in many
cases, far exceeded even their own expectations in their pursuit of higher
education and community service,” said Chancellor Ryan. “The Chancellor’s Award
for Excellence is given to the best and the brightest students across the SUNY
System. I am pleased to see so many recipients this year from nearly all of our
campuses. I commend the campus presidents and their faculty and staff for
discovering and enhancing student excellence throughout the year.”
The
Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence was created to recognize students who
have best demonstrated, and been recognized, for the integration of academic
excellence with accomplishments in the areas of leadership, athletics,
community service, creative and performing arts or career achievement.
Each year, campus
presidents establish a selection committee, which reviews exemplary members of
their college communities who are graduating. Nominees are then forwarded to
the Chancellor’s Office and are subject to a second round of review. Finalists
are then recommended to the Chancellor to become recipients of the Chancellor’s
Award for Student Excellence.
At Wednesday’s
ceremony, which will be held at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, beginning at 3:30 p.m., each recipient will receive a framed certificate
and medallion, which is traditionally worn at commencement. A complete listing
of this year’s recipients is available online, at www.suny.edu,
under “News & Announcements.”
The State
University of New York is the largest comprehensive university system in the United States, educating more than 417,000
students in 7,669 degree and certificate programs on 64 campuses.
