Chair, Academic Excellence Awards Committee

MEMO

To: All Faculty

From: Bill Freeman

Chair, Academic Excellence Awards Committee

Date: 3/17/2009

Subject: Academic Excellence Awards

The Fourteenth Academic Excellence Awards night will be held at 7:00 p.m. on

May 6, 2009 at the Civic Center, lecture hall. This is the time of year when we recognize outstanding students in all curriculums who will be graduating in the Spring or Summer Semester 2009. If you would like to recognize a student with an academic award, please complete the form on Page 3 and return it to Mildred Whitaker no later than April 3, 2009.

So that the awards will recognize the highest achieving students, please limit your selection to one Academic Excellence recipient from your curriculum and one Outstanding Student recipient from your curriculum. If your curriculum has multiple credentials, (degree and diploma), one student may be selected for each credential. Please pick from the following two awards when choosing the name for curriculum awards:

(Curriculum Name) Academic Excellence Award - Overall and Curriculum GPA of 3.75 or higher.

Outstanding Student in (Curriculum Name) - a student who may not have the 3.75 average but has demonstrated other attributes.

Plaques will be given to all recipients. If you are giving a memorial award (for example, Larry W. Talton Excellence in Business Award), you will be responsible for your plaque.

For presenters, a template has been provided on the next page that should be followed to help the night be more productive and run in a timely manner.

Thank you! Please don’t miss out on this opportunity to award CCCC’s excellent students!! If you have questions, call me at X7257.

NO FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER APRIL 3.

TWO TEMPLATES

I. Presenting an award to one person:

(Time limit: 1 minute)

a. Explain the award and what type of achievement it represents.

b. Say 2-3 sentences about the recipient.

c. Name the person last.

d. Please do not talk while people are clapping because they won't hear you.

II. Presenting the same award to several people in a group, like the Ambassadors,

Scholar Athletes, Who’s Who, etc:

(Time limit: None [Because it depends upon the number of awards in the group.])

a. Explain the award and what type of achievement it represents.

b. Tell the audience to please hold its applause until all recipients are on the stage.

c. Call all the names with about a one-second pause in between names. (If people

clap anyway, wait until they stop before you call the next name.)

d. After all the recipients are on stage standing together, hand out the awards without

additional words.

e. Then ask the audience to applaud the group's accomplishments.

For all presenters: Professional attire is required.

No chewing gum on stage.

CCCC ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS NIGHT

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

7:00 p.m.

Dennis Wicker Civic Center

Lecture Hall

Sanford, NC

Name Of Award:

Name Of Presenter:

All recipients will receive plaques. Please list the First and Last Name, SSN or student ID, Address, Resident County of the recipient. (All information is available on IIPS/Datatel.)

Name: SSN/ID:

Address:

County :

PLEASE RETURN TO MILDRED WHITAKER, BOX 15

LEE CAMPUS (OR EMAIL ),

BY FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009