MACAS Awards Ceremony to be held at AASU April 13
SAVANNAH, GA—An impressive 377 ethnic minority students will be honored during Armstrong Atlantic State University's third annual Minority Academic Achievement Scholars (MACAS) awards ceremony on April 13. These students will be recognized for having earned a grade point average of 3.0 or better during the 2002-03 academic year. The ceremony will begin at 7:00 P.M. in AASU's Fine Arts Auditorium. It is open to the public.
"MACAS recognizes honor students that have forged ahead to display their academic proficiency with pride," said Michael Snowden, director of minority affairs at AASU.
Keynote speaker Elridge McMillan is president of the Southern Education Foundation, Inc., in Atlanta. Appointed to the Board of Regents in 1975, Regent McMillan currently represents the Fifth Congressional District. He served as chair of the Board of Regents from 1986 to 1987 and has been awarded several honorary doctorates from around the nation. Regent McMillan began his career in 1954 in the Atlanta Public Schools. From 1965 to 1967 he served as program operations supervisor in the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity for the southeastern region, and from 1967 to 1968 was chief of the Education Branch in Region IV.
The MACAS awards ceremony was developed as a forum to commemorate the academic success of its minority students. During the program awards will be presented to students within three categories of achievement: Academic Excellence Award (grade point average of 4.00); Academic Achievement Award (grade point average between 3.50 and 3.99 ); and Academic Honor Award (grade point average or 3.0 or better).
For further information about the awards program, contact AASU's student affairs office at 912.927.5271.
April 8, 2003