The SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence acknowledges students for outstanding achievements. Students who have best demonstrated the integration of SUNY excellence within many aspects of their lives, which must include three of the following areas: academics, leadership, campus involvement, community service, or the arts will be eligible for consideration. These students may have already received recognition from local, state, national or international organizations, and we would like you to include that information in the nomination process. In order to be eligible, a student must graduate between June 2020 and May 2021. This year, each campus may nominate up to three candidates for this award.
In addition to the above, which is now referred to as the “General Award,” SUNY has added a new Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the “Special Award.” Campuses are eligible to nominate one student for a special award in one of the following categories: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Military, Special Service (COVID-19), or Overcoming the Odds. One student will be awarded system-wide for each of the categories. Students may be nominated for both a General and one of the Special Awards.
To nominate a student for either or both, a General or Special award, nomination packets should be sent via email to Roberta Greene at greenera@potsdam.edu no later than Friday, Jan. 8, at 12 noon. Each nomination packet must include a letter of nomination, the nominee’s resume, and no more than two additional letters of support. Incomplete packets or late materials cannot be considered. While there is not a minimum GPA requirement for either award, SUNY expects nominees to have demonstrated exceptional academic performance.