{"id":28537,"date":"2020-03-03T05:51:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=28537"},"modified":"2020-03-03T05:51:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:51:48","slug":"apsu-dean-of-students-gregory-singleton-wins-outstanding-first-year-student-advocate-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/03\/03\/apsu-dean-of-students-gregory-singleton-wins-outstanding-first-year-student-advocate-award\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Dean of Students Gregory Singleton wins Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience &amp; Students in Transition announced this year\u2019s recipients of the Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate Award.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_483224\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Gregory-R.-Singleton-1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-483224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-483224\" title=\"Austin Peay State University's Gregory R. Singleton receives the Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate Award. (APSU)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Gregory-R.-Singleton-1-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University's Gregory R. Singleton receives the Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate Award. (APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-483224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University&#8217;s Gregory R. Singleton receives the Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate Award. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The center named Austin Peay State University\u2019s Gregory R. Singleton, associate vice president for APSU Student Affairs and dean of students, as one of the 10 award recipients.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 30 years, the award has honored college faculty, administrators, staff and students for their outstanding work on behalf of first-year students and for the impact their efforts have on the students and culture of their institutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ten award recipients were chosen from 93 nominations. This year\u2019s recipients were formally recognized at the 39th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience held February 21st-24th, 2020, in Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>They are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amy Baldwin, University of Central Arkansas.<\/li>\n<li>DeOnte Brown, Clemson University.<\/li>\n<li>Carol Dochen, Texas State University.<\/li>\n<li>Julie McLaughlin, Cincinnati State Technical &amp; Community College.<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Powell, Berry College.<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Royal, Union County College.<\/li>\n<li>Gregory Singleton, Austin Peay State University.<\/li>\n<li>Heather Thrush, Wabash College.<\/li>\n<li>Mary Ellen Wade, Loyola University Maryland.<\/li>\n<li>Annette Walstad, Carroll College.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis rich tradition of this award includes more than three decades of recognizing the outstanding work that takes place making immeasurable impact on the lives of first-year students,\u201d said Jennifer Keup, executive director of the National Resource Center. \u201cIt\u2019s an absolute honor to add ten names to the esteemed ones who have previously received this honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Singleton, go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/student-affairs\/student-affairs-office-staff.php\" >www.apsu.edu\/student-affairs\/student-affairs-office-staff.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the about the award, the award recipients, or the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience &amp; Students in Transition, please contact Lauren Writer, Assistant Director for Conferences and Continuing Education at <a href=\"mailto:hallla@mailbox.sc.edu\">hallla@mailbox.sc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience &amp; Students in Transition announced this year\u2019s recipients of the Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,6669,262,34594,512,825,6858,6881,34593,25706,34591,34590,34592,2279],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28538,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions\/28538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}