- Speech Communication
- Class of 2020
- Hawkinsville, Georgia
VSU Honors Sylandi Brown with 2017 Ethics Award
2017 Dec 6
Valdosta State University recently recognized the winners of the 2017 Ethics Awards. The recipients, including Sylandi Brown of Hawkinsville, Georgia, were nominated by their peers as part of VSU's Ethics and Fraud Awareness Week 2017, which took place Nov. 12-18.
The theme of Ethics and Fraud Awareness Week 2017 was "Celebrating VSU's SPIRIT of Ethical Culture," with "SPIRIT" representing the award nomination categories of Stewardship, Prevention, Integrity, Responsibility, Inspiration, and Trust. From 65 nominations, the Ethics Award Committee selected the six winners - two faculty, two staff, and two currently enrolled students - who consistently display ethical leadership and uphold VSU's commitment to civility, integrity, and citizenship.
"I am just so humbled and so honored to have been selected for this award," said Brown, a speech communications major who expects to graduate in Spring 2020. She serves as Student Government Association secretary and co-leader of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry freshman leadership team. "Ever since I was young, my parents instilled in me the importance of knowing what is right, doing what is right, and standing up for what is right. That's the mentality that I've always adopted."
The recipients of the 2017 Ethics Awards were honored with a special ceremony and plaque.
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Established in 1906, Valdosta State University is a premier comprehensive university that offers both the extensive academic, cultural, and social opportunities of a major university and the small classes and close, personal attention of smaller institutions. It boasts more than 100 degree, certificate, and endorsement programs on campus and online for undergraduate and graduate students. It also has a full menu of extracurricular activities, from national championship athletic and academic teams to honors organizations, sororities and fraternities, intramural sports, educational and service clubs, a symphony orchestra, art and theatre, research opportunities, and more. Even as underclassmen, students file patents on inventions and make life-changing scientific discoveries, present at national and international conferences, publish research in collaboration with their professors, work in campus-based clinics that benefit the community, live and learn at partner institutions around the globe through study abroad, and more. The possibilities are endless.