Nominations for the Student Life Achievement Awards — the STUEYs— the annual event recognizing academic excellence, integrity, innovation, scholarship, research diversity and community will be accepted until Jan. 11.
“The STUEYs is our version of the Oscar’s that we hold here on campus, and it is our way to recognize the students, and staff members for many of the accomplishments that they have done throughout the year. Specifically, the accomplishments that address our core values,” said Christina Rajkumar-Castillo, the associate director of special events and projects in the Office of Campus Life and Student Engagement and the director for the STUEYs.
Any NSU staff, student or faculty member may be nominated for the following categories: Student of the Year, Executive of the Year, Administrator of the Year, Staff Person of the Year, Student Government of the Year, Graduate Organization of the Year, Undergraduate Organization of the Year, Athletic Team of the Year, Corporate Partner of the Year, Professor of the Year, Co-curricular Advisor of the Year, Alumnus of the Year and Regional campuses Student of the Year.
The nomination form can be found on OrgSync and on the Special Projects website. For the Student of the Year Award, “each of our 16 colleges, which will include the College Allopathic Medicine this year, will be considered for this category. This is actually at the discretion of the dean, and out of those 16 nominees we will have one selected as NSU’s overall student of the year,” explained Rajkumar-Castillo. “[The Student of the Year] can be either an undergraduate or graduate student. Like we said, the Student of the Year is at the discretion of the college [in question], and we know that the colleges have both undergrad and graduate students, so it is whoever they select to represent that college that year. Then all of them go into the same pool to be considered for NSU’s overall Student of the Year,” explained Rajkumar-Castillo. Nominations in any category must include valid reasoning for why the nominee should be considered.
Nominators should consider how a potential nominee goes “above and beyond to provide service or opportunities and following through with the core values [of NSU],” said Rajkumar-Castillo. According to Rajkumar-Castillo, they are looking for hosts and talent for the ceremony, “as the night progresses, there will be awards given out, there will be performances in between and that is the essence of the show”. Since last year was the 20 anniversary of the awards, the ceremony focused on the awards from years past.
The 21 annual “STUEY’s” will take place on April 16 in the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center.
