FOUNDER'S DAY STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

 
Dear Students,
 
Founder's Day is the annual AUB event celebrating the establishment of the University on December 3, 1866. To raise student awareness and participation in this important occasion, AUB announces the eleventh  student essay contest. All AUB undergraduate students, regardless of class year, faculty, or major, are encouraged to enter this year's Founder's Day contest, to be celebrated on December 7, 2009 at noon, in Assembly Hall.
 
AUB has allocated  three awards in 2009: $750, $500 and $250 for first, second and third places.  In line with tradition, the author of the first-place entry will read his or her essay at the Founder's Day Ceremony on December 7, and his or her name will be inscribed on a plaque in the entrance to Assembly Hall.

This year's Founder's Day essay theme is:

“AUB publicly upholds the ideal of tolerance of diversity. In your experience, is the AUB campus a place where all kinds of diversity are indeed accepted?”

 
Essays should not exceed 1,000 words in length and may be jointly prepared by two or more students. A special selection committee appointed by President Peter Dorman  will evaluate the submitted essays and recommend up to three awards.
Entrants should submit a typed essay, on CD, to the  office of Dean of Student Affairs  in West Hall, room 112C no later than Friday, November 20,2009.

Please make sure to obtain a receipt for your submission.
 
Maroun Kisirwani
Dean of Student Affairs