Nathanael Savasta of West Coxsackie Earns 2018 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

2018 Mar 27

Nathanael Savasta of West Coxsackie, a student at Hudson Valley Community College, was recently named as a recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

As a member of the Business Administration HonorScholar program at the college, Nathanael has maintained a GPA of above 3.5 while engaged in a range of extracurricular activities. Nathanael has been named to the Hudson Valley Community College President's List during each of his semesters at Hudson Valley and is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society; he has also received the USA Today Phi Theta Kappa - All New York Academic Award, and works as a peer tutor at the college. During his time at Hudson Valley, he has served as freshman class president, chairman of the Freshman Committee, Student Senate president, both treasurer and vice president of the Entrepreneurship Club, and vice president of the Investment Club. He also serves as a student trustee on the Hudson Valley Community College Board of Trustees and a co-chair of the Board of Trustees curriculum and student life committee. He was a member of the presidential search committee tasked with hiring the college's next president. As a member of the Business Administration HonorScholar program at the college, Nathanael has maintained a GPA of above 3.5 since Fall 2017 while engaged in a range of extracurricular activities.

The Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence was created 21 years ago to recognize students who have best demonstrated, and been recognized for, the integration of academic excellence with accomplishments in the areas of leadership, athletics, community service, creative and performing arts or career achievement.

This year, five students from Hudson Valley were recognized with this prestigious honor.

Each year, campus presidents establish a selection committee, which reviews exemplary members of their college communities who are graduating. Nominees are then forwarded to the Chancellor's Office and are subject to a second round of review. Finalists are then recommended to the Chancellor to become recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.