Honors Awards Committee

The Honors Awards Committee selects the recipient of the Wilson Award, the University’s highest student honor.  The committee also selects the recipients of the Distinguished Service Awards, which are granted each year to graduating seniors who have demonstrated outstanding qualities of leadership and citizenship.  The Honors Awards Committee reports to the Vice Chancellor for University Advancement. Committee meetings are scheduled by the Coordinator of Special Events.

The committee is composed of 12 members, one of whom serves as a nonvoting chair.  In an attempt to maintain some consistency one member from each constituency group will serve for two-years, if possible.  The constituency groups are: three faculty members appointed by the Faculty Senate; three staff members (two members should be from Student Affairs with another being appointed from

another area of the University); three student members (SGA President Pro Tem; Black Student Association President; and the IFC President or NPC President, depending on their graduation date - in the event one of the above persons is unable to serve due to schedule or other conflicts the ASPHC President or SGA Graduate Senator may be asked to serve); three Wilson Fellows selected by the leadership of the Wilson Fellows and former Wilson Award winners.

*Patricia Robertson  (2009)                 Shunqetta Shade Cunningham (SGA President Pro Tem)

*Donna Caldwell   (2008)                    Lindsay Weaver  (BSA President)

*Mark Foster                                       Terry Walker  (IFC or NPC President)

#Terry Merriweather  (2008)                Greg Hopkins   (Wilson Fellow)

#Rusevelt Johnson  (2008)                    Margo Aufderheide  (Wilson Fellow)