<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The Douglas Skopp Social Justice Scholarship was created to honor the late Dr. Douglas Richard Skopp. Dr. Douglas Skopp joined the History Department here at SUNY Plattsburgh in the fall of 1972.</span></div><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:auto;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" id="gmail-:2kh" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden"><div class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" id="gmail-:2ki" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div id="gmail-avWBGd-274"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This scholarship seeks to identify and recognize a student that demonstrates:</span><span lang="EN"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN"></span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Leadership skills in inclusion, equity and social justice</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A deep passion for social justice and dismantling harmful narratives</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Provide leadership within the campus community, particularly through increasing awareness of bias, eradicating hate speech, and promoting civility, respect, justice, and equality for all</span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Preference shall be given to student leaders who have overcome personal challenges during the pursuit of their college degree. Examples include but are not limited to:</span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Financial circumstances</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">First Generation College Student</span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Students must be in good academic standing to be eligible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please go </span><span lang="EN"><b><span style="fon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