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Nominations are now being accepted for the Phillip Santa Maria Award for Student Leadership in Equity and Campus Diversity. For 25 years, Dr. Phillip Santa Maria served as dean of students at Buffalo State. During his tenure, he was recognized both on campus and throughout the community for his leadership on a variety of diversity and social justice issues. The Phillip Santa Maria Award for Student Leadership in Equity and Campus Diversity has been established in his honor and is given annually to recognize students who exemplify his commitment to service, social justice, and diversity.

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to nominate student leaders who exemplify Dr. Santa Maria’s commitment to service, social justice, and diversity through promoting respect for diversity and individual differences in their activities, projects, discussions, or leadership with student organizations and groups for this purpose.

Eligibility
Undergraduate and graduate students at Buffalo State

Criteria
1. Recipients must have demonstrated leadership in the promotion of respect for diversity and individual differences through their roles in organizing discussions, curricular experiences, out-of-classroom experiences, or special projects for programming that go beyond that usually expected of a student.

2. Recipients must demonstrate leadership in encouraging their peers to embrace diversity and to appreciate the benefits of diversity on campus, in the community, and in their everyday lives.

3. Recipients must have created or played a significant leadership role in initiatives or programs that promote access, equity, or social justice in relation to the diversity of thought, diversity of experiences, diversity of values, or other aspects of diversity within the college or the broader community.

Please use the interactive online form on the Equity and Campus Diversity website to nominate a student. Nomination forms must be sumbitted to the Equity and Campus Diversity Office by the close of business Wednesday, February 17.

Please contact Janet Fehskens, secretary 1, at 878-6210 or eeoequity@buffalostate.edu with questions.