Division of Student Affairs

Share the Vision Student Leadership Awards

The goal of the Share the Vision campaign is to build a just and humane campus community at Case. Through the efforts of faculty, staff and students, the Share the Vision committee helps provide programs and activities that strengthen our sense of shared values and goals.

Each year, the Share the Vision committee selects a student or student group worthy of recognition for their contributions on campus. The following is a list of recent winners.

2009 Group Award - The Case Cooperation Circle

The Case Cooperation Circle helps promote interfaith dialogue and provides a forum for discussion. A nominator wrote:

"Religion has been a source of division, tension and conflict for thousands of years, and this has not changed in modern times. On a campus as diverse as ours, there is an important opportunity to build bridges between people who might never have met outside a university community. Communication among people of different backgrounds fosters trust, understanding and camaraderie, with the hope of removing barriers to peaceful coexistence. The Case Cooperation Circle works to create an environment where the foundations of these bridges can be laid."

2009 Individual Winner - S.K. Piper

The individual Share the Vision Leadership Award was presented to S.K. Piper, described in a nomination as someone who is "passionate, persuasive, stubborn and overall brilliant," someone who "brings things to people's attention that would otherwise be forgotten or disregarded." She spearheaded humanitarian campaigns oncampus and organized off-campus trips to speak out against injustice. As another nominator wrote, Piper "exemplifies the meaning of promoting a just and humane campus and...has increased awareness on our campus about important social justice issues and the ways in which these issues intersect and impact us all."

2008 Group Award - Women in Leadership Week

Undergraduate student Valbona Bushi devised the concept of Women in Leadership Week to give students— both men and women— the opportunity to hear about important issues facing women in leadership and to provide them with useful strategies. The week was supported by multiple student groups and offices across campus that believed Women in Leadership Week could add tremendous value to students. After the week was over, both students and alumni commented on how valuable it had been. Women in Leadership Week not only laid the groundwork for student leaders to feel empowered but also developed a strong relationship between students and alumni. These efforts have helped to further the shared goal of a just and humane community at Case.

2007 Group Award - Demetrius Colvin and Jacqueline Greene

An officer in his residence hall, the African-American Society, and Voices of Glory, Demetrius Colvin has been active all over campus. He has participated in Footlighters and the Players Theater Group, and he has also served as an Orientation Leader and Resident Assistant (RA).

Demetrius believes that his most important efforts to build a humane and just campus don't rest solely in the programs he participates in, but in his day-to-day interactions with people. "I have come to see that I can reach more people by being an advocate and letting my passion for tolerance, understanding, and a respectful community show in every connection or relationship I create with someone," Demetrius explains. "Only when I have left a positive impact upon this campus will I consider myself a successful graduate of Case Western Reserve University."

Jacqui Greene has held offices in the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Catalyst, and the Sexual Misconduct Student Task Force. She also was active with WRUW-FM, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, and Undergraduate Admissions, among other things. "Since my arrival at Case, I have been extremely involved in political activism as a passion and moral obligation," she said. "I spent a vast majority of my free time working on education campaigns, putting together events, and lobbying appropriate parties in order to promote a more egalitarian and justice-minded community both here on campus and in greater society." Jacqui said she has dedicated many sleepless nights, frenzied hours of work, and time that should have been spent on homework. She also spoke of "countless daydreams thinking and working on ways to improve my campus community and the world at large."

Please Note: There were no winners in 2006.