BU Honors Best Student Employees and Supervisor
Emily Ackerman (Sargent’25), Graduate Student Employee of the Year (from left); Sophia Gish, Supervisor of the Year; Sydney Huston (CFA’24), Undergraduate Outstanding Service Award winner; and Emelyn Theriault (CGS’22, COM’24), Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year were honored April 17 at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground.
BU Honors Best Student Employees and Supervisor
Half dozen students and staff serving the University lauded at April 17 ceremony
This article was originally published in BU Today on April 18, 2024. By Rich Barlow. Photo by Cydney Scott
Boston University held a ceremony at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground on April 17, honoring half a dozen students and staff with best student employee and supervisor awards. CFA student Sydney Huston (CFA’24) is among one of the winners!
Sydney Huston (CFA’24)
Undergraduate Outstanding Service Award
If you’re unfamiliar with BU, Huston’s might be the first face you see when you come to campus initially. She and her coworkers interact with hundreds of people daily at the Admissions Visitors Center, where she is senior student admissions representative for training and scheduling.
“Even though it may be our thousandth time greeting visitors as they walk in, it is most likely their first time walking in and experiencing BU,” she says. “Keeping the guests’ perspectives in mind keeps my customer service fire alive.” She manages campus visit registrations and answers visitors’ questions by phone, email, or in person. “I work alongside my friend Eugene Viti (COM’25) to make daily schedules for student employees, manage coverage requests, create weekly newsletters, curate monthly meeting presentations, and produce training documents for new student employees.”
Although Huston has to balance work and studies, she says the former leavens the latter: “As I work on my BFA thesis, my days are all art, all the time. The administrative tasks associated with my student leadership position offer a much-needed change of pace. Fortunately, I can also use my design skills to my advantage when creating meeting presentations and newsletters.”
In fact, working at the Visitors Center, she says, has settled her on a career in higher education after graduation next month.
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