East Lyme Student Earns Dean's Award from Colgate University

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Jessica Sitko was a recipient of the Dean's Award for academic excellence during the 2013 spring term at Colgate University, where Sitko just finished the first-year at Colgate and is a member of the Class of 2016

To be eligible for the Dean's Award, a Colgate student must achieve higher than a 3.30 average while enrolled in at least four courses. Sitko is a graduate of East Lyme High School, and lives in East Lyme.

Colgate University is a highly selective residential liberal arts institution distinguished by academic excellence and interdisciplinary inquiry. Located on a beautiful campus in upstate New York, Colgate takes pride in the active engagement of its students and faculty in local, national, and global communities.

Colgate offers 52 majors and 13 additional minors to an internationally and culturally diverse student body of 2,900 students. Our Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, which has been in place since 1928, has been recognized as one of the most ambitious and elegant general education programs in the country.

This strong liberal arts background proves incredibly powerful after graduation, with students launching start-ups, finding jobs with established industry leaders, or being accepted at highly ranked graduate schools.