39 GEORGIANVIEW 2024 PRINT EDITION
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Your career success and satisfaction as a
Georgian graduate are important to us.
All Ontario colleges participate in a
government-led graduate satisfaction
survey for recent graduates. Six months
after you graduate, and again two years
later, you'll be contacted by Forum
Research Inc. to share your thoughts.
Please know that all your responses
and information provided to
Forum Research will be kept
strictly confidential and only
shared with Georgian College.
Your feedback can help shape
Georgian's future, so we can
continue to meet the needs of
our students and alumni.
Our Institutional Research team
is here to answer any questions
or concerns that you have. Email
feedback@georgiancollege.ca.
You can keep your alumni
contact information up to date at
GeorgianCollege.ca/alumni.
Courtney Duthie (class of 2014 and 2017),
Research Analyst, Institutional Research
Alumni:
share how
you're doing
Supporting our
future generation
The Georgian College Alumni Association honours two recipients
annually with the Child of Alumni Award. The award is provided to
students who demonstrate academic excellence and financial need,
and who are also the children of Georgian alumni.
The 2023 recipients of the scholarship are Maryam Ismail and Cassie
Irwin. Maryam (class of 2023) and her mom Sharon Safa Rigby (class of
2020 and 2021) are currently enrolled in the Indigenous Community
and Social Development program together and will graduate in 2024.
If you asked Maryam five years ago if she could see herself receiving
an award or even a diploma, she would've said no, as she struggled
with feelings of belonging as an immigrant of Egyptian descent and
Indigenous woman.
"I am so happy to be receiving this award and feel like my family line
is moving forward in a good way," she says. "We don't have family
legacies due to the restrictions and consequences of the Indian Act,
so this award feels like my family is moving forward to be educated,
recognized and serving community. Georgian has changed my life and
my family's lives."
Cassie is a second-year Practical Nursing student. She's the daughter
of Penny Irwin (class of 2011), a graduate of the Personal Support
Worker program.
"This award means a lot to me as it helped me through the toughest
semesters in school," says Cassie.
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Maryam Ismail (class of 2023) and her mom
Sharon Safa Rigby (class of 2020 and 2021)
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Cassie Irwin (current student)
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To support deserving students visit GeorgianCollege.ca/giving
