Impressive academic credentials and campus engagement are traits shared by SUNY Fredonia’s recipients of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. Two students at the university — Sivan Adler and Alexander Scalcione — were among the 205 students across the SUNY system honored a recent award ceremony in Albany.
Adler, an Albany resident who is May candidate for concurrent degrees — including a BFA in acting and a BA in ethnic and gender studies — has held leadership positions in student clubs, an academic fraternity and a campus office. These include chair (Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Council), president (Students Teaching Equals Positive Sexuality), secretary (Random Acts improv team), and vice president and secretary (campus chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, the national dramatic society in theatre arts). Individual honors received by Adler — who has a minor in English — include the Transfer Student, Paul F. and Mary Joyce Schaefer Endowment and Mac Nelson scholarships and the Bruce Walford, Bea Ullman, Dr. Kurt and Sibylla Sonnenfeld Memorial Fund and McVicker Ethnic and Gender Studies Scholar-Activism awards. Adler is also enrolled in the Honors Program. Adler has served as a Fredonia campus tour guide, a theater camp counselor in Troy, and a receptionist at a senior assisted living community in Albany…