Tagged: Awards and Recognition

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion congratulates Yolanda Zepeda, interim vice provost for diversity and inclusion, who has been honored with the Central Ohio 2024 Social Justice Award for Education Advocacy.

ODI is proud to share that Johana Coronado, a Program Specialist for ODI's Latine Student Success (LSS), has been awarded a grant from UnidosUS to deliver the Avanzando Through College Leadership Program.  This grant provides a curriculum foundation for students who want to build their college success and leadership skills in a learning community that uplifts Latine cultures, experiences and perspectives.

A trio of distinguished Office of Diversity and Inclusion [ODI] staffers were part of a group of 31 faculty and staff members from across the university who were featured recently in the 18th edition of Who's Who in Black Columbus.

Meeting with university officials is a regular occurrence while balancing a neuroscience curriculum for third-year Morrill Scholar Alexander Abreo. An invitation into a vice provost's office became surprising only when he found out it was to honor him with a Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion congratulates Associate Vice Provost Andreá N. Williams for being honored with the 2022-2023 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award.

he Office of Diversity and Inclusion is proud to announce that Robert Decatur, director of the Morrill Scholarship Program (MSP), has received The Ohio State University 2023 Presidential Staff Award. The Presidential Staff Award, a special distinction within the Distinguished Staff Award awarded to one recipient, recognizes one recipient who demonstrates university values, as well as a commitment to diversity, community engagement, affordable education, and access for all students.

A first-year Morrill Scholar with a lifelong passion for working to fight food insecurity issues was named the 2022 National Youth of the Year by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in late October.

Asha Haddox-Rossiter, a public management, leadership and policy major at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, was recognized with the highest honor for Club teens at a gala event held at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Los Angeles.

A priceless collection of Black art collected over the past 40 years and displayed within the Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center will forever be known as the Lawrence K. Williamson Jr. Black Fine Art Collection.

n 2022, Chick-fil-A awarded 12,699 Team Members with scholarships. Twelve of those Team Members got an extra special surprise when they were invited to the Chick-fil-A Support Center to be part of a restaurant uniform test; Instead, Chick-fil-A surprised them with life-changing scholarships of $25,000 per person.