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Zosha Stuckey's WRT 205 Class Receives Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement

 

Kimberly Harris intern at the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, Zosha Stuckey, WRT 205 student Kathleen Garland, colleague and project support person Trish Serviss, Chancellor Nancy Cantor.

 

At the recent (March 23) Chancellor's Award For Public Engagement & Scholarship Dinner, Writing Program Teaching Assistant and Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Doctoral Candidate Zosha Stuckey's WRT 205 (Spring 2008) class received an award in the Academic Service Learning category. As noted on the Center for Public and Community Service website, "This award acknowledges individual students, groups of students, residence halls, residences floors, student organizations, and academic projects or classes who invest themselves in and contribute to the public good."

 

The WRT 205 class was honored specifically for its work with Enable (http://www.enablecny.org/), a local agency dedicated to providing services for children and adults with developmental and phyical disabilities. Students in WRT 205 collaborated with particiapants in Enable's Day Habilitation Program to create a journal that documented the experience.

 

More information on the 2009 Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship can be found on SUNews.

Photo Courtesy SU Photo Archives.