Outstanding Senior Award given on behalf of the Psychology Department at Messiah College.
This award goes to a student who meets the following criteria:
- Demonstrates outstanding academic achievement by actively participating in classes, consistently completing quality work, maintaining an excellent grade point average, and seeking research/learning opportunities outside the classroom.
- Demonstrates an extraordinary life of service both to the college and the surrounding community by exhibiting compassion for and concern about those less fortunate, volunteering time and energy to assist in whatever capacity is needed, and responding selflessly by putting the needs of others before his/her own.
- Demonstrates exceptional leadership grounded in a mature Christian faith, by being a positive role model and setting an example for others to follow, intuitively encouraging and motivating those around him/her, assuming the responsibility of leadership when the need is apparent, and striving to achieve his/her own goals and aspirations.