Kelly L. Richards honored at SUNY Oswego convocation

2012 May 17

Kelly L. Richards of Nassau was honored at SUNY Oswego's recent Honors Convocation. She received the J. Donald Herring, Ph.D., and the SPHR Outstanding Senior Award.

Richards is a senior studying human resource management at Oswego. She is the daughter of William and Joanne Richards of Nassau. She is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Lambda secretary, Society for Human Resources management, Del Sarte Dance club, resident mentor in Johnson Hall, Admissions intern and peer adviser. She is employed as an executive team leader for Target Corp.

The formal ceremony, complete with a procession of faculty and college officers in full academic regalia, is sponsored each spring at Oswego by Vega, the women's honor society.

The audience included faculty, staff, students and students' family members. Nearly 110 Oswego students received awards at the ceremony.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News named it among the "Top Public Regional Universities in the North" for 2012, the Princeton Review and USA Today named SUNY Oswego to their 2012 list of 150 "best value" colleges and universities in the nation, and the Princeton Review included Oswego in its 2012 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges."

A 151-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls more than 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.