Colleen Steward Serving as Ambassador in SUNY Geneseo's Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development

2017 Oct 26

Colleen Steward is among ten SUNY Geneseo student ambassadors in the college's Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development (CIDD) for the 2017-18 school year.

Student ambassadorships are awards provided by generous donors to fund individual grants of $5,000 each for ambassadors in varied disciplines to carry out self-directed, transformational projects on campus, within the local community or around the world.

Steward earned the Campus Auxiliary Services (CAS) Ambassadorship in Entrepreneurship. Her project is titled "StandUp Leadership Marketing Expansion." StandUp Leadership is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to facilitating personal development events on college campuses for qualified, but underserved high school students. Events empower students by exposing them to a college campus environment and help them develop key leadership skills, while colleges are given the opportunity to recruit students they may not otherwise reach. Three successful events have been held in Geneseo and Steward is seeking to expand StandUp Leadership to inspire more students.

Working through the CIDD, Student Ambassadors pursue opportunities to develop active learning projects that connect academic work, co-curricular experiences, and community engagement. They are encouraged to design projects that ask meaningful questions about real-world problems and issues, synthesize knowledge and skills drawn from multiple disciplines, and make connections between their academic programs, personal experiences, and co-curricular life.

The ambassadorship began last summer and will extend through the school year. This is the sixth year of the ambassadorship program.