Dean’s Award Winners 2024
Each year, the Dean of Students recognizes seniors who, through their involvement on and off campus, embody Oxy’s four pillars of Equity, Excellence, Community and Service.
Occidental College's four Dean's Award winners for 2024

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Dean’s Award Winners 2023
Each year, the Dean of Students recognizes seniors who, through their involvement on and off campus, embody Oxy’s four pillars of Equity, Excellence, Community and Service.
Ashon Crawley Named 2023 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence
Crawley is a scholar, artist , and associate professor of religious studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
Occidental Receives Grant for National Collaboration To Promote Inclusive Excellence in STEM
Occidental College has been selected to be a part of a nationwide, 15-institution cohort that will explore new ways to promote inclusive excellence in STEM higher education.
Foreman To Speak on the Forgotten History of 19th-Century Black Activism
Literary historian, digital humanist and 2022 MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman will speak on "Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th...
Ellie Findell ’23 Attends White House Meeting with Vice President
Former ASOC President Ellie Findell ’23 joined other student leaders from across the country in an October 14 meeting at the White House with Vice President Kamala Harris regarding...
From The Occidental: Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s new documentary is ‘a love letter to investigative reporting’
Gabriela Cowperthwaite ’93 screened her new documentary “The Grab” at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) this month.
2022-23 Barack Obama Scholars Selected for Re-Imagined Program
Occidental College has announced its 2022-23 cohort of Barack Obama Scholars, the prestigious leadership training program that has been re-imagined to make it available to more...
Upward Bound Program Renewed with Five-Year, $3 Million Grant
Occidental College's Upward Bound program has been awarded a five-year, $3-million grant by the U.S. Department of Education to continue motivating low-income and first-generation...
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