{"id":109930,"date":"2019-11-27T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109930"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:24:38","slug":"suny-morrisville-eop-student-lauded-for-academic-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109930","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Morrisville EOP student lauded for academic achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt-and-Chancellor-Kristina-M.-Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"109931\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt-and-Chancellor-Kristina-M.-Johnson.jpg?fit=742%2C705&amp;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=109931\" class=\"wp-image-109931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt-and-Chancellor-Kristina-M.-Johnson.jpg 742w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt-and-Chancellor-Kristina-M.-Johnson-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt-and-Chancellor-Kristina-M.-Johnson-150x143.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt-and-Chancellor-Kristina-M.-Johnson-400x380.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"109932\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt.jpg?fit=380%2C532&amp;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=109932\" class=\"wp-image-109932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt.jpg 380w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kalif-Amritt-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SUNY Morrisville criminal justice student Kalif Amritt, of\nQueens, is among the recipients of SUNY\u2019s inaugural Norman R. McConney Jr.\nAward for Student Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award, which recognizes outstanding Educational\nOpportunity Program (EOP) students for their academic achievements, celebrates\nstudents who have overcome significant obstacles in life to achieve their\neducational and personal goals. The award is named after the late Norman\nMcConney Jr., one of the architects of the statewide EOP and champion of youth\nempowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThrough the EOP, SUNY has changed the course of so many\nlives and has given so many students the chance to excel and pursue their\ndreams,\u201d said&nbsp;SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson&nbsp;during the award\nceremony held at the SUNY Global Center in Manhattan. \u201cWe are enormously proud\nof the students receiving these awards. Many of them have overcome enormous\nobstacles to fulfill goals that once may have seemed unattainable. I applaud\nevery one of them for demonstrating perseverance and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKalif has been a true success story for EOP and all\nstudents at SUNY Morrisville,\u201d said Tyler Wheelock, EOP counselor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his first semester at college, Amritt\u2019s mother passed\naway shortly before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough he wanted to give up, he pushed himself through\nthe remainder of the semester,\u201d Wheelock said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year Amritt will attain one of his mother\u2019s dreams when\nhe graduates in May. He plans to pursue his career goal to work in\ncounterterrorism and emergency response for New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A leader on the SUNY Morrisville campus, Amritt served as a\nstudent representative on the EOP advisory board and mentored students as\nmember of the EOP summer peer staff. He also served as a student counselor, a\nresidential assistant and peer mentor for EOP\u2019s Building Engagement Through\nAcademic Success (BETAS) program to first-year students in academic jeopardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn this (peer mentor) role, Kalif met with and guided\nstudents through their second semester while providing students with tips to be\nsuccessful at the college level,\u201d Wheelock said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amritt also was a member of the Caribbean American Student\nUnion (CASU), representing that club as a voting member of student government\nand served as a Mustang Mentor during first-year student orientation weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the son of Stephanie Amritt-Hall, of Queens, and\nMichael Hall, of Schenectady, both natives of Jamaica. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUNY Morrisville criminal justice student Kalif Amritt, of Queens, is among the recipients of SUNY\u2019s inaugural Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence. The award, which recognizes outstanding Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students for their academic achievements, celebrates students who have overcome significant obstacles in life to achieve their educational and personal goals. 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