Section XI. Awards & Prizes

  1. All academic awards and prizes are privileges of students with high academic achievements. That being said does not mean, however, that the Faculty Meeting has no right to eliminate a name from prize winners if he or she is judged with outstanding immoralities and unethical manners deemed detrimental to the reputation and dignity of the College.
  2. Naming of prize winners is a task of the Faculty Meeting towards the end of all academic years. This task has to be in corresponding with the academic records of the College in the concerned years.
  3. Prizes include:
    1. Community Merit Prize shall be awarded to the out-going Head Steward and Village Stewards. Again, it is to the discretion of the Faculty Meeting to award Community Merit Prizes to any other member of the community depending on the amount of contribution that a particular person has put into the life of the community.
    2. Most Progressive Student Prize is a prize given in recognition of learner’s effort to make an improvement in his or her academic performance during the academic year.
      1. This prize must be given to the student who makes the most progressive difference between the two semesters’ overall percentages.
    3. Subject Prizes are awarded in recognition of the academic performances of students in every single subject.
      1. Prizes are awarded to final year students only except those of the Greek and Hebrew subjects
    4. Top of Year Prize is awarded to the person who has achieved the highest overall grade point average for each academic year and in each program of study with the exception of those students in the final year B.D.
    5. Merit Academic Prize is awarded to the
      1. First runner-up student. The overall percentage and grade points should be calculated from the results received from the four years of study.
      2. In case that the overall percentage and grade points of this student fails to make the 55% pass GPA this prize must not be awarded.
    6. Dux of the College and Academic Excellence Prize shall be named
      1. From the final year BD students of each academic year group.
      2. That person should carry the highest overall grade point average of the four years program of study.
      3. The final grade of projects and theses must be considered if only they are available. Repeating students shall not be eligible for this award.