Student Success Blog

2025 CEHD Outstanding Student Award Winners

Each spring, faculty in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) come together to select an outstanding student in their program to receive the honor of being named as their program award winner at the CEHD Degree Celebration. Graduating students selected for this award embody the very best of their program: they excel in their studies; they demonstrate leadership in classes and internships; and they have a genuine and tenacious passion for their discipline.

Abeer Omari

Each year, faculty in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) come together to select an outstanding student in their program to receive the honor of being named as their program award winner. Students selected for this award embody the very best of their program: they excel in their studies; they demonstrate leadership in classes and internships; and they have a genuine and tenacious passion for their discipline.

Abeer Omari
The College of Education and Human Development faculty in Foreign Language and ESL/ESOL Education have chosen

Abeer Omari

as the

2021 Outstanding Student in Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Exceptional Learners – Foreign Language

Nadia Skolnitsky

Each year, faculty in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) come together to select an outstanding student in their program to receive the honor of being named as their program award winner. Students selected for this award embody the very best of their program: they excel in their studies; they demonstrate leadership in classes and internships; and they have a genuine and tenacious passion for their discipline.

Nadia Skolnitsky
The College of Education and Human Development faculty in Secondary Education have chosen

Nadia Skolnitsky

as the

2021 Outstanding Student in Secondary Education – History/Social Science

Feiven Zigita

Each year, faculty in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) come together to select an outstanding student in their program to receive the honor of being named as their program award winner. Students selected for this award embody the very best of their program: they excel in their studies; they demonstrate leadership in classes and internships; and they have a genuine and tenacious passion for their discipline.

Feiven Zigita
The College of Education and Human Development faculty in Foreign Language and ESL/ESOL Education have chosen

Feiven Zigita

as the

2021 Outstanding Student in Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Exceptional Learners – ESOL

Mary Kristine McGehee

Each year, faculty in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) come together to select an outstanding student in their program to receive the honor of being named as their program award winner. Students selected for this award embody the very best of their program: they excel in their studies; they demonstrate leadership in classes and internships; and they have a genuine and tenacious passion for their discipline.

Mary Kristine McGehee
The College of Education and Human Development faculty in Special Education have chosen

Mary Kristine McGehee

as the

2021 Outstanding Student in Special Education – General Curriculum