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CECI Students Honored at Student Awards Convocation
April 14, 2026
Nearly two dozen CECI students were recognized at the 2026 Student Awards Convocation. The event took place on April 13 in the Eberhard Center on the City Campus. 20 CECI Students received an Excellence-In-A-Discipline Award. The Excellence-in-a-Discipline Award honors one student from each undergraduate and graduate discipline. Faculty from each department select the recipient based upon an earned minimum number of credit hours at an exceptional grade point average, along with other criteria identified by each unit as appropriate for use in determining academic excellence in their program. The winners from CECI were:
Nicole Mazur, Criminal Justice
Evyn Schneider, Education for
Young Children, Birth to Kindergarten, General and Special
Education
Hadley Halterman, Elementary Education
Lainey
VanBeek, Hospitality Tourism Management
Esteban Romero Herrera,
Legal Studies
Brynn Buschle, Public and Nonprofit
Administration
Nicholas Sobas, Secondary Education
Tia Olsen,
Social Work
Taylor Reid, Special Education
Garima
Karki, Criminal Justice, M.S.
Ravyn DeWitt, Educational
Leadership, M.Ed.
Mary Eilers, Educational Leadership - Special
Education Administration, M.Ed.
Bethany Dallas, Higher Education,
M.Ed.
Austin Farrow, Instruction and Curriculum, M.Ed.
Alexandria Marzolf, Literacy Studies, M.Ed.
Douglas Ferguson,
Public Administration, M.P.A.
Morgan Rapa, School Counseling,
M.Ed.
Emma Woodward, Social Innovation, M.A.
Jordan Caples,
Social Work, M.S.W.
Ryann Dailey, Special Education, M.Ed.