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Minority Achievement Award

Thank you for your support of our great faculty and staff. This award honors an individual of any race or ethnic background whose efforts have attracted minority students to AU and/or whose efforts have contributed to the success, retention and graduation rates of minority students at AU. Additionally, this award honors an individual who has contributed to improved race relations and fostered a sense of community within the university. The recipient will be presented $1,000 and a plaque.

2010 Minority Achievement Award Winner

Dr. Carla Jackson Bell, College of Architecture Design and Construction director of multicultural affairs, was selected as the 2010 Minority Achievement Award recipient. She has contributed to improved race relations and fostered a sense of community within the university. Bell has demonstrated that recruiting, retaining, mentoring and supporting a less insular educational environment encourages students to share the experiences, understandings and aesthetics of their culture. Her contributions have led to an approximately five percent increase in the success, retention and graduation rates of underrepresented students in CADC since she was hired in 2006. She will be honored at the 2010 MAIN Event homecoming dinner at President and Mrs. Jay Gogue's home on November 5. Website

Minority Achievement Award Recipients:

2009
Nels Madsen, Engineering

2008
Shirley Scott-Harris, Engineering

2007
Cal Clark, Political Science

2006
Curtis M. Jolly, Agricultural Economics

2005
Juan E. Gilbert, Computer Science & Software Engineering

2004
William Powell, Music

2003
Vivian M. Larkin, Rehabilitation and Special Education

2001
Overtoun Jenda, Discrete and Statistical Sciences

2000
Dennis W. Weatherby, Minority Engineering Program