{"id":79252,"date":"2017-03-28T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=79252"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:36:17","slug":"five-occ-students-to-receive-suny-chancellors-awards-for-student-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=79252","title":{"rendered":"Five OCC Students to Receive SUNY Chancellor&#8217;s Awards for Student Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=71335\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71335\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-71335 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/onondaga-300x153.jpg?resize=300%2C153\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/onondaga.jpg?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/onondaga.jpg?resize=150%2C76&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/onondaga.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Five Onondaga Community College students will receive SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Awards for Student Excellence <span data-term=\"goog_940402030\">April 5<\/span> in Albany. The awards will be presented by SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher during a ceremony in the Empire State Plaza Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>Honorees demonstrated the ability to combine academic excellence with other accomplishments which may include leadership, campus involvement, athletics, career achievement, community service or creative performing arts. OCC\u2019s five honorees are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hassina Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Major at OCC: General Studies with an Honors minor<\/li>\n<li>Adams works at a refugee center three nights a week and is the head teacher for a class of middle school-aged girls. She plans to transfer and double major in International Relations and Political Science. She wants to become a lawyer who advocates for refugees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Heather Flewelling<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hometown: Oswego. Earned her GED in 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Major at OCC: Humanities &amp; Social Sciences with minors in Honors and Women\u2019s Studies.<\/li>\n<li>Flewelling is a 34-year-old mother who will transfer to Syracuse University. She will pursue a bachelor\u2019s in Public Health with a minor in Medical Anthropology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ashley Haskins<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High School: Sandy Creek, Class of 2008<\/li>\n<li>Majors at OCC: Nuclear Technology and Electrical Engineering Technology<\/li>\n<li>Haskins is in training as an equipment operator at Nine Mile Point. She plans to become a licensed reactor operator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chloe Hoffman<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High School: Fayetteville-Manlius, Class of 2015<\/li>\n<li>Major at OCC: Liberal Arts &amp; Sciences \u2013 Humanities + Social Sciences with an Honors minor<\/li>\n<li>Hoffman intends to transfer to SUNY Geneseo, pursue a bachelor\u2019s in American History and a master&#8217;s in Education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Betheny Witherell<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High School: Mexico, Class of 2007<\/li>\n<li>Major at OCC: Mathematics &amp; Science<\/li>\n<li>Witherell plans to transfer to SUNY Upstate Medical University and work toward a degree in Medical Imaging Science\/Radiography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Onondaga Community College students will receive SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Awards for Student Excellence April 5 in Albany. The awards will be presented by SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher during a ceremony in the Empire State Plaza Convention Center. Honorees demonstrated the ability to combine academic excellence with other accomplishments which may include leadership, campus involvement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-kCg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/onondaga.jpg?fit=350%2C178&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}