Outstanding Senior Award: The outstanding graduating seniors from each academic department receive the President’s award. Chosen by the entire division faculty based on overall and divisional cumulative GPA of at least 3.5, with a mix of demonstrated on and off campus leadership.
Outstanding Senior in Major Award: The outstanding graduating senior in each major of the division: Professional Accounting, Business Economics,and Economics. A graduating senior is recognized by each division majors committee. Criteria include cumulative GPA (usually a 3.25 overall) and demonstrated excellence in the major.
Robert B. Carson Award: Award for excellence in Economics. Selection is made by the Economics faculty. Recipient should be a graduating senior who has completed the best senior thesis in Economics.
It is not required that each of these awards be granted every year. Certificates of recognition are presented to recipients at graduation and engraved plaques bearing the names of recipients are permanently displayed in the Division office.
To view the roster of Division award recipients, scholarship recipients and other awards since 1969, click here. This is an official list of award recipients. Only those individuals named are formally recognized by the Economics and Business Division and the College at Oneonta. There can be more than one recipient of the student achievement (outstanding senior) award in a given category in a given year. However, there are no runners-up, or second and third place recipients.
