BSU awards its highest academic achiever

BSU awards its highest academic achiever

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Article profiling the Black Student Unions first award ceremony for the black student population's highest achiever. Gilford Mhloyi had the highest cumulative average and was given the award at the Senior Dinner in 1979.

Quad Angles

West Chester University

April 24, 1979

Jacquelynne Conyers-Jordan

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BSU awards its high academic achiever These days Gilford Mhloyi's smile is even broader than usual. He recently was given an award for academic excellence by the Black Student Union (BSU) of West Chester State College. The award was the first of what the BSU hopes will be an annual presentation. Given at the Senior Dinner, the final event of Black History Week '79, the award was based solely on academic achievement. Mhloyi has the highest cumulative average of the Black student population at West Chester State College. A Rhodesian, Mhloyi's selection as the award-winner reflects his years of work and his overcoming the handicap of being a stranger in a strange land. A senior majoring in secondary education, Mhloyi is in the United States to become certified as a teacher. Rhodesia needs teachers—its people need education —and Mhloyi wants to help. He already has some experience. In Rhodesia the lower grade levels are taught by high school graduates, and Mhloyi taught five years before coming to the United States to pursue his college degree. Mhloyi is here under the auspices of West Chester State College's Office of International Education and is being supported through the African-American Institute and a special program at WCSC established to encourage foreign students to come to the college. Since his arrival in 1977, Mhloyi has studied through summers to speed up his undergraduate work. He will graduate in August and hopes to go on to graduate school while his wife. Marvellous (who is also studying at WCSC), finished her degree in secondary education. Mhloyi"s concentration is social studies. While interested in all aspects of this expansive discipline, his first love is economics. The Mhloyi's are from the rural area of Rhodesia and have little love for cities. They find the Chester County countryside and the town life of West Chester busy enough but "a lot like home." Though their study schedule is tight, they have managed to find time for a visit to Michigan and another one to Washington, D.C. They have one child, an eight-year-old daughter, who is studying in Rhodesia.