Southeastern Senior Receives Undergraduate Award

by SOUTHEASTERN PUBLIC INFORMATION
June 4, 2008

DURANT, Okla. -- Southeastern Oklahoma State University¹s Lauren Wesley has earned the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award from the Oklahoma Colleges Student Personnel Association.

Wesley is a senior from Garland, Texas, majoring in advertising and public relations.

She was nominated for the award by Camille Phelps, Assistant Dean of Students at Southeastern. The contest is open to students from all colleges and universities in Oklahoma. Nominees are required to work in a Student Affairs department.

Wesley started working with Student Life at Southeastern in the spring of 2005. She is proficient in the Choctaw language after four semesters at Southeastern. She started American Sign Language in middle school and finished in high school in the Advanced Placement Four Class.

"I'm Choctaw," Wesley said, "but I didn't speak the language until I had the classes here. I love working with students and I want to work in Student Affairs. I'm here and I love it."

Wesley received her plaque May 23 at the Oklahoma State University-Tulsa campus. She didn't even know she had been nominated for the award.

At Southeastern, she was named Miss Indian SOSU for 2007-08. She is involved with the Native American Council and the Student Programming Board.

When not working with students, Lauren is an avid scrapbooker.