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AMOS SAWYER COLLEGE CELEBRATES 2022 ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE WINNERS  GRAND STYLE

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MONROVIA – A major program aimed at honoring and celebrating the 2022 winners of academic excellence and quality teaching at the College will be held tomorrow, Tuesday 6 June 2022

The colorful ceremony starts at 10:30 am in the VIP Lounge, Academic Complex, the University of Liberia Fendall Campus.

During this event, chairpersons, faculty members, students and staffs will be recognized and honored for their outstanding role and high performance, quality teaching, academic excellence and dedicated services.

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Dr. Herman Beseah Browne, Former President of Cuttington University and Priest in Charge, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Parish and Former Dean, Trinity Cathedral will be delivering the keynote address at the honoring program on Tuesday, 6 June 2023.

Each year, Amos C. Sawyer College of Social Sciences and Humanities recognizes and celebrates outstanding faculty, students and administrative staffs with special honors and awards.

Over the last one-half centuries, Amos C. Sawyer College, formerly Liberia College has worked to build an institution with the adroitness to directly address the fluctuating academic challenges that the youthful population faces, and the college has grown over the century.

The awards include the: Most Academic Faculty, Distinguished Chairperson, Best Student Organization, Outstanding Student Leader, Most Deserving Student, Outstanding Academic Department, Outstanding Thesis Oral Defense and Presentation, Most Versatile Faculty and the Most Deserving Chairperson.

The winner of the “Philip N. Wesseh Academic Excellence Print Journalism Award” will also be honored and recognized.

The honorees are placed in various categories including the best-performed students in thesis oral defense and presentation.

The six best-performed students are Danielle T. Wornee, BSW in Social Work; Rosetta Fardolo and Grace D. Moleyeaze, BA in Communication and Media Studies; M. Hamzat Kiazolu, Sr., BA in Political Science; Juma Patricia Sando, BA in Geography and D. Wilson Kokulo Zawu, BA with honor in English.

While Mr. Benjamin G. Sumo, a Teaching Assistant in the Department of English and Language Studies will be recognized as the Most Distinguished Faculty of the Year .

The Chair of the Department of Geography, Rev. Jethro S. Tamba will be honored as the Most Outstanding Chairperson of the year.

A veteran Liberian journalist, legal expert and instructor of the Departments of English and Language Studies, Political Sciences, Communication and Media Studies and Social Sciences, Cllr. Mark Bedor-Wla Freeman will be honored as the Most Versatile Faculty of Amos C. Sawyer College.

Another renowned Liberian journalist and adjunct faculty in the Department of Communication and Media Studies (formerly Department of Mass Communication) of the Amos C. Sawyer College of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Liberia, Mr. Frank Sainworla has been recognized as the winner of the Philip N. Wesseh Academic Excellence Print Journalism Award introduced at Amos C. Sawyer College.

Other honorees are Prof. Dr. Moses C.T Jarbo, Faculty of Social Work; J. Nyema Woart, Faculty of History; Abraham A. Fofana, Faculty of Political Science; Danicius Kaihenheh Sengbeh, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies; Charles Dickerson, Faculty of Arts and Crafts; James K. Mulbah, Faculty of Geography; Mohamed K. Bengeh, Faculty of Physical Education; Gautier Bou, Faculty of French Studies; Emmanuel J. Toe, Faculty of English and Rev. Lemuel Harris, Faculty of Religious Studies.

A physically challenged student, Mr. Siaka Kanneh was named as the Most Deserving Student, while the Association of Students with Disability won the Student Group of the Year award.

The Student Leader of the Year award went to Rosetta Fardolo of the Department of Communication and Media Studies, while Mr. Richard Reginald Mensah, Chairperson of the Fine and Performing Arts was named Most Deserving Chairman.

Several other students will also be recognized and honored for their high academic performance. They include Jennifer M. Scott, Magna Cum Laude in Sociology; Jumamah Jackson Kesselee, Cum Laude, Social Work and Masan Swen Jahwee, Cum Laude, Social Work; Eric Kolleh, Cum Laude, Demography; Mark Yeah, Cum Laude, Demography; D. Wilson Kokulo Zawu, Cum Laude, English; Francis Johnson, Cum Laude, Sociology; Ada Leemu Sharkor, Cum Laude, Sociology.

The Most Dedicated Staff of the Year award went to Mr.  Emmanuel D. Wallace of the Department of Religious Studies; Christiana Bellah, Department of Communication and Media Studies; Mohammed Kamara, Office of the Dean of Sawyer College and Francis Kamano, Department of History.

Members of the thesis panel will be recognized and honored for their professional standards and values that they brought to the exercise.

The committee members include Assistant Prof. Alex O. Teaway, Chair; Roseline Tomah-Wiah, Co-chair and members are Prof. Dr. D. Elliot Wreh-Wilson, Cllr. Mark Bedor-Wla Freeman, Prof. Dr. Nathaniel G. Gbessagee, MR. Ernest Winderburk, Mr. Abraham A. Fofana, Mr. Roosevelt G. Tule, Rev. Tehpamubo M. Sayeh and Rev. Leviticus O. Kollie.

Meanwhile, on May 29th the Amos C. Sawyer College conferred BA and BSW degrees on 214 graduates including 115 females and 99 males.

The 133 from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 20 from the Department of Communication and Media Studies, 19 from the Department of Demography, 14 from the Department of Political Science, 14 from Social Work Unit, 8 from the Department of Geography, 4 from the Department of the English and Language Studies, and 2 from the Department of History. Press Release

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