Kayla Guidi Receives 2014 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence

2014 Apr 8

Herkimer College senior Kayla Guidi of Herkimer has been selected for the 2014 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. The Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence honors State University of New York students who have best demonstrated and been recognized for their integration of academic excellence with other aspects of their lives, which may include leadership, campus involvement, athletics, career achievement, community service or creative and performing arts.

This year, 274 recipients were selected from the 64 SUNY campuses with an average GPA of 3.8. The honorees were recognized at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 2 at the Convention Center at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.

Kayla Guidi is a Criminal Justice major who has served as president of the Sociology Club, vice president of the Outdoors/Go Green Club and Criminal Justice Club and public relations officer for Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society. Guidi is participating in the Honors Program at Herkimer College, and was named to the Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges. She was a member of the women's soccer team and has volunteered for Hope House, the Mini Park Cleanup in Herkimer, the Gramm Lorraine Project and Phi Theta Kappa's NYS Department of Transportation Adopt a Highway program.