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亚色影库 Students Receive Diversity Scholastic Competition Awards

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Three women stand in a row holding their projects in front of them.
The winners of the 2018 Diversity Scholastic Competition – Linda Maher, Gina Vilayphone, and Hafsa Asfa – stand with their projects.

Three Mount Wachusett Community College students were recently honored as the winners of the 6th Annual President鈥檚 Commitment to Diversity Scholastic Competition, receiving certificates and a free class.

The three winners and their entries are Hafsa Asfa (of Fitchburg) 鈥� My Blood Type, Linda Maher (of Spencer) 鈥� Invisible Disability and Gina Vilayphone (of Westminster) 鈥� Diversity is a mindset. Each will receive a free, three-credit academic course for use during the spring or summer semesters. The students were awarded on Monday, February 12.

Six people stand in a row in the middle of a wide hallway.
The winners of the 2018 Diversity Scholastic Competition stand with their certificates. Pictured from left to right are Diversity Committee Member and 亚色影库 Chief of Campus Police and Public Safety Karen Kolimaga, Diversity Committee Chair Lisa Williams, student winners Linda Maher, Gina Vilayphone, Hafsa Asfa, and 亚色影库 President James Vander Hooven.

鈥淓veryone thinks of diversity as black and white. But when you have the students write and think about diversity, they think outside the box,鈥� said Lisa Williams, chair of the Diversity Committee and an Assistant Director of Strategic Enrollment Management at 亚色影库.

The competition was developed by 亚色影库鈥檚 Diversity Committee to highlight the value of diversity to work and educational environments. Students are encouraged to submit papers, posters, essays, research work, artwork or other original, creative work related to issues of diversity or identity, such as those involving disability, race, socio-economic status, veteran status, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and national origin

In addition to the awards and free academic course, the students鈥� work will be displayed at 亚色影库鈥檚 Gardner campus.