Croton Native Recognized for Academic Excellence

From Champlain College:

BURLINGTON, VT (04/18/2016)-- Jacob Shapiro of Croton on Hudson, NY was one of several senior students recognized by Champlain College's Robert P. Stiller School of Business for Academic Excellence. Students were honored at the Stiller School of Business Honoring Excellence Reception, which took place on April 16, 2016 on Champlain College's campus in Burlington, Vt.

The following students received the Academic Excellence awards in their majors:

Accounting - Monica Birchmore, Benjamin Drinkwine, Dawn Elliott, Abigail Frary, Joseph Freitas, Katelyn Michell, Nikki-Marie Trivisonno, and Melissa Walden.

Business - Lisa Ashley, Renae Bouchard, Sarah Demers, Karisa Desjardins, Maria Jarvis, Steven Macomber, Kirby McThompson, Shannon Ryan, and Alyssa Tetreault.

International Business - Domingos Kumpessa, Jacob Shapiro, and Adam Vernali.

Management of Creative Media - Taylor Bibaud, Taylor Covington, Mariana Franzetti, Roland Garofalo, Matthew Leta, Shannon Mitchell, Kyle Patterson, Colin Rebord, Zachary Saxe, and Paige Schmittlein.

Management & Innovation - Meghan Condon and Gregory Johnson.

Marketing - Everett Ackerman, Lauren Buniva, Jorie Spaulding, Benjamin Villnave, and Katherine Weed.

~~Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and more than 60 online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 380 Colleges: 2016 Edition. Champlain College is featured in the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" for 2016 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Champlain was named the #1 "Most Innovative School" in the North by the U.S. News and World Report's 2016 "America's Best Colleges and #14 in the overall list of "Best Regional Colleges in the North. For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.