 George
Brown College Student Wins Millennium Excellence Award,
March 2006
Currently attending George Brown College in the Community Services
program, Theo Steryannis is one of the lucky Canada
Millennium Scholarship Foundation Excellence Awards
Laureates.
As one of the 100 top-level in-course awards winners from post-secondary
institutions around Canada in 2005, Steryannis is being
rewarded for his leadership, innovation, community
involvement and good grades. Each
year, the Foundation gives out 1,200 in-course Excellence
awards at three different levels.
The
annual Graduate
Luncheon 2005 was held on April 15th to celebrate
and congratulate all students on successfully completing
the two-year Intervenor Program (C108).
Toronto honours Pramila Aggarwal with the William P.
Hubbard Race Relations Award
Congratulations are in order for Pramila Aggarwal, a
professor in the Community Worker program, for her recent William
P. Hubbard Race Relations Award. This honour, given by the City
of Toronto, recognizes the outstanding achievement and commitment of those
who have made a difference in the important area of community diversity.
Nominations are sent in by local organizations and a special committee
selects the recipients of this award, which is named after the first African-Canadian
Toronto city councillor. The nominees are those who have contributed significantly
to improving race relations as a volunteer and have not yet been honoured
for his or her achievements.
Aggarwal, a full-time professor of eight years, has been active with
issues like workers' rights, immigrant women's work and health. Pramila's
volunteer activities include serving as committee chair for the York Help
Centre and representing equity groups for the Federal Task Force on Labour
Adjustment of the Canadian Labour Force Development Board. She has worked
with the Anti-Racism Centre and is a board member of Toronto Organizing
for Fair Employment.
An awards ceremony was held on December 10, 2003, coinciding
with International Day for Human Rights. To find out more
about this award, please go to www.toronto.ca/civicawards/hubbard_award.htm
www.toronto.ca/civicawards/2003winners.htm
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