{"id":3907,"date":"2012-12-14T14:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T19:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www4.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2012-12-14T14:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T19:57:42","slug":"fall-2012-graduate-student-meryl-ironson-receives-shirley-chisholm-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/fall-2012-graduate-student-meryl-ironson-receives-shirley-chisholm-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2012 Graduate Student, Meryl Ironson Receives Shirley Chisholm Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Caption:<\/strong> Meryl Ironson has been named the Fall 2012 <\/em><em>recipient<\/em><em> <\/em><em>of the East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Shirley Chisholm Award for her ongoing demonstration of excellence in learning, sensitivity to social issues, and commitment to activism. Meryl Ironson is seen in the above photograph displaying her award. Dr. Rhonda Sutton, Ed.D., who nominated her for the honor, is seated next to her.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania recently bestowed graduating graduate student, Meryl Ironson the fall 2012 Shirley Chisholm Award.\u00a0 This award is sponsored by ESU\u2019s Commission for Women, Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, The ESU Graduate School, the Women\u2019s Studies Concentration and the Women\u2019s Center. The Shirley Chisholm Award was established in 1991 after Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to be elected to congress and the first to run for United States President, was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from ESU.\u00a0 The award honors graduating female students who, like Shirley Chisholm, are dedicated to academic excellence, are sensitive to issues of social justice, and committed to activism.<\/p>\n<p>Meryl Ironson will receive her Master\u2019s Degree in Education from ESU on December 15, 2012.\u00a0 She was named the Shirley Chisolm Award recipient based on her academic accomplishments and her involvement in improving the lives of others.\u00a0 Meryl has achieved an impressive grade point average of 4.0.\u00a0 She was honored at the Bragg Intermediate School in Chester, N.J., because of the work she has done on behalf of children in Chester and in South Africa.\u00a0 Through the Global Literacy Project, Meryl Ironson and her students were linked with South African children attending the Randfontein Primary School.\u00a0 Meryl and her students responded to the South African children\u2019s need by conducting two book drives which resulted in 44,000 books being sent to them. \u00a0The NJ and South African students participate cooperatively in international literacy events and publish a joint Poetry Anthology entitled: Teaching Minds, Reaching Hearts.\u00a0 \u00a0As a result of this success, Meryl has become a representative for the Global Literacy Project.\u00a0 In this capacity she has traveled toSouth Africatwice on behalf of the Bragg School\u2019s ongoing bond with theRadfonteinPrimary School. Meryl Ironson\u2019s achievements clearly demonstrate a commitment to academic excellence, sensitivity to issues of social justice, and a concern to engage in actions to advance those causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall 2012 Graduate Student, Meryl Ironson Receives Shirley Chisholm Award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}