Newburgh resident earns SUNY chancellors award

Chantal Fairclough cited for Student Excellence

Posted 5/27/20

SUNY Orange students Chantal Fairclough, along with Jennifer Zimmerman, andDecember graduate Giovanna Cala, have been selected as recipients of the 2020 State University of New York …

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Newburgh resident earns SUNY chancellors award

Chantal Fairclough cited for Student Excellence

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SUNY Orange students Chantal Fairclough, along with Jennifer Zimmerman, andDecember graduate Giovanna Cala, have been selected as recipients of the 2020 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, as announced recently by Chancellor Kristina Johnson.

In all, nearly 250 students from across the SUNY system—from four-year and community college campuses—were recognized.

“Giovanna, Chantal and Jennifer represent the very best of our collective student body,” said Dr. Kristine Young, SUNY Orange president. “Each, in her own way, has positively impacted our College community, as well as our community-at-large. Their academic success is a testament to their hard work and commitment, but their selfless efforts to improve the lives of their classmates, families, neighbors and friends is what stands out to me. They are to be commended for what they have achieved, and they are each bound for greater successes.”

“SUNY’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence winners are the champions of their campuses, each showing a tireless devotion to their academics and extracurricular pursuits, as well as their care for their fellow students as mentors and leaders,” Johnson added. “They are inspiring, and I have high expectations for how they will contribute to our society as we rebound from this current pandemic that separates us today.”

A resident of Newburgh, Fairclough is an active member of the SUNY Orange Honors Program and received the Presidential Honors Program Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement. She will graduate with a liberal arts degree, having focused on chemistry. She was inducted into the College’s Phi Theta Kappa chapter and served one year as a student senator and member of the Student Success Committee. She was also an Honors Program peer mentor, a peer tutor, secretary of the Multicultural Club and an active volunteer for the Liberty Partnership Program.

Zimmerman is a Walden resident, while Cala resides in Port Jervis

The Chancellor’s Award 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.