Southeastern students earn speech-language-hearing awards
Thursday, October 8, 2015
by: Rene Abadie
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| Caprice Lee | Megan McMillin |
HAMMOND – Two graduate students in Southeastern Louisiana University’s communication
sciences and disorders program have earned awards based on their achievements.
Caprice Lee of Monroe was selected to be a participant in the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association’s Minority Student Leadership Program (MSLP), while Megan McMillin of
Shorewood, Ill., received a $1,500 graduate scholarship from SPALS, the Speech Pathologists
and Audiologists in Louisiana Schools. Both are graduates of Southeastern’s bachelor’s
program in communication sciences and disorders.
Lee is one of only 40 students nationwide to be selected to participate in leadership
training at the 2015 Convention in Denver in November. As an MSLP participant, she
will take part in leadership-focused educational programs and activities at the convention
designed to help build and enhance leadership skills and gain an understanding of
how the association works.
To be named to the program, Lee had to submit a letter of recommendation and
prepare an essay describing the qualities of an individual who demonstrates leadership,
the skills she wanted to develop, and how participation in the program would enhance
leadership skills.
McMillin is a former player for the Southeastern Lions volleyball team, who was
named a winner of the President’s Award for Academic Excellence for the College of
Nursing and Health Sciences when she graduated last year. She also was named to the
Southland Conference’s All-Academic Team and received the conference’s F.L. McDonald
Postgraduate Scholarship. She intends to work in a school setting after she earns
her master’s degree.
