Honors Convocation set for April 22

04/12/2023 

SUNY Cortland will acknowledge students for academic achievement at its annual Honors Convocation ceremony on Saturday, April 22.

The event, to be held in Park Center Alumni Arena, will begin at 5 p.m.

Students who achieve top 5% distinction in their class and other special award winners are invited to celebrate with parents, family members and friends.

The keynote speaker at this year’s Honors Convocation is Laura Davies, Ph.D., a professor in SUNY Cortland’s English Department. A graduate of Le Moyne College, Davies earned a master’s in English from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in composition and cultural rhetoric from Syracuse University. Davies’ research focuses on writing teacher pedagogy in K-12 and university levels, student composing and reading practices and histories of composition and rhetoric. She teaches classes on writing pedagogy, composition history and theory, technical and professional writing, research methodologies, creative nonfiction and first-year writing.

Davies also is a member of the author team for They Say/I Say with Readings (W.W. Norton & Co.), the best-selling first-year writing textbook used in thousands of college and high school classrooms across the United States. She served as SUNY Cortland’s chief of staff from 2021 to 2022.

Students who are members of the Honors Program will receive a special recognition. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Mark Prus will deliver closing remarks.

Additional information about Honors Convocation is available online.