Hello dragons, I'm Dr. Peter Holbrook, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Tiffin University.
I am so pleased to be with you today to celebrate your academic accomplishments.
I've been looking forward to this day.
It is the tradition at Tiffin University to celebrate those students graduating with academic honors in the month of April,
just prior to our commencement. While we would have wanted to be with you in person with your family around,
cheering you and congratulating you, this pandemic just didn't allow us to be able to do that. And that's unfortunate.
But no matter what we are doing around us today,
and no matter where we are at, we need to stop and celebrate the milestone
that you've achieved. And I hope that you do that as well. And mark this time,
celebrate it and be proud of your accomplishments.
 
And, to the families who have supported our graduates,
significant others, friends,
you have made it possible for
our graduates to make it to this far in their journey. Thank you for walking with them. So it's my honor today to present the
Academic Distinction Honors to our graduating students. At the undergraduate level,
students are given the Academic Distinction Honor for graduating with a cumulative GPA of 3.5
or higher. At the graduate level, it's where students who are graduating with a cumulative GPA of 4-point.
Again,
congratulations and
celebrate and be proud of your accomplishments. We are.
Hi everyone, my name is Dave Selnick. I'm the Dean of the School of Criminal Justice and Social Sciences.
I'm sorry, we can't be together today
but it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the Excellence in Field of Study Awards for the School of
Criminal Justice and Social Sciences.
Each awardee will win the Glass Flame Award.
The Glass Flame Award is presented for excellence in the field of study and it's given to one
graduating student in each major in the baccalaureate program with a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
Awardees are chosen through the faculty in the appropriate departments, for both their academic performance and for their
contribution to learning and life on campus. It is now my pleasure to reveal the names of the winners.
For corrections, Sarah Marquardt-Gibbs. For criminalistics,
Kyle Ingle
For cyber defense and information assurance,
Bane Adkins.
Digital forensics, Jehad Shrbini.
Forensic psychology, Andrea Pappas. Government and national security, Wayne Kreis.
Homeland security and terrorism, Dylan Smith.
Justice administration,
David Bugle.
Law enforcement, Ryan Harris. And the R. Scott Distel Award for Psychology goes to Giorgio Ferrario.
It's now my pleasure to reveal the name of the winner of the F.H. Cap Wilkinson Award.
The Cap Wilkinson Award is very special to the School of Criminal Justice and Social Sciences,
because it is given to the undergraduate student who embodies the very best of the entire school,
regardless of major. It is my pleasure to announce that the F.H. Cap Wilkinson Award goes to Jessica Bernans.
Congratulations, Jessica.
We also have some outstanding graduate students which we would like to acknowledge.
For crime analysis, Luke Niederhelman. For criminal behavior,
Feban Yeshak.
For forensic psychology, Natalie Artman. For homeland security,
Madison Fisher.
For Homeland Security Administration,
Sarah Clark. For justice administration,
Mike Cortez.
For psychology,
Ashlee Ireland.
Congratulations to all our winners on their accomplishments and their graduation. Your awards will be mailed to you at your home address.
Thank you very much. And thank you for being part of the Tiffin family.
I hope you enjoyed the program.
Please know that I wish we were together with you in person to celebrate today.
This recognition is probably one of my favorites if not my favorite event at Tiffin University, because
what we've done is we've recognized our brightest, our highest academic achieving students.
And not only are you really good in the classroom, but you're also very engaged and involved across Tiffin University.
We're so very proud of all of you and hope that you will always stay in touch after you graduate from our wonderful institution.
I want to share with you just a little bit about our guiding principles that I know you've seen all over campus or in any of
the literature and on our website. We created these in
2016 and these remind us daily of why we do the work that we do,
how we do the work that we do,
and most importantly, throughout the ICARE values we have, how we treat each other and how we treat you, our students.
I hope we've transformed your life through the education that you've had at Tiffin University because you have transformed ours.
Please know that you have been a
significant and positive impact on our lives and given us the privilege of providing a learning environment that sets you up for success
long after leaving our place called Tiffin University.
We hope we have created Dragons for life in each of you and we wish you all great success.
Congratulations to each and every one of you.
