{"id":62394,"date":"2021-12-03T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=62394"},"modified":"2021-12-03T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:26:28","slug":"graduate-students-earn-prestigious-regional-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=62394","title":{"rendered":"Graduate students earn prestigious regional awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three graduate students in Fort Hays State University\u2019s College of Education were recently recognized by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Region IV-W. NASPA is a 15,000-member-strong professional organization that works to promote the principles of integrity, innovation, inclusion, and inquiry in the field of student affairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caden Frank from Omaha, Neb., and Will Fried, Bethesda, Md.,\nreceived the Region IV-W \u201cRising Star Award,\u201d the highest award offered in the\ngraduate student category. Both are on-campus students working on Master of\nScience in Education (MSE) degrees in the Higher Education Student Affairs\n(HESA) program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cody Westerhold, Independence, Kan., is an online student in the\nMSE in HESA program, who serves as the Director of Student Life at Independence\nCommunity College. He received the NASPA Region IV-W&nbsp; Community College\nProfessional Award for his exceptional service this last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASPA is\nthe world&#8217;s largest professional organization of higher education\nadministrators, and Region IV-W is the largest region, covering an area from\nSaskatchewan to New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FHSU had two of the four Rising Stars for the region, which\nAssistant Professor Phillip Olt said is uncommon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNASPA generally limits one awardee per\nstate unless they truly stand out \u2013 even from among those who are exceptional,\u201d\nsaid Olt, who\nserves as the coordinator for the HESA program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olt pointed to the qualities that made Frank and Fried exceptional\ncandidates for this award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCaden and Will stand out as leaders \u2013 dedicated rising\nprofessionals who put others first and bring a mission-focused and well-rounded\napproach to this important work,\u201d Olt said. \u201cCaden is active in the research\nand design of effective student engagement and leadership programming for\nstudents on our campus, and Will is already becoming a leading national voice\non issues related to students with disabilities in higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olt had similar praise for Westerhold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCody is known among professionals in our field as an innovator\nand someone who tirelessly works to serve students,\u201d Olt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MSE in HESA is a 36 credit-hour program designed around the\ncurrent theory and practice of higher education with practical, hands-on\nlearning experiences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Three graduate students in Fort Hays State University\u2019s College of Education were recently recognized by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62395,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62394\/revisions\/62395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}