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MCC Daily Tribune

MCC Model UN Students Win "The Honorable Mention Award" at the 2023 Model UN Simulation In New York

One of MCC's capstone programs that highlights student leadership, is the Model United Nations Program.  Since 2006, over 40 students have applied to the program every year which makes this honors program attractive, inclusive, competitive, and displays best practices.

This year’s team of students excelled in New York where they took part in a UN simulation along with 5,000 students from over 195 colleges and universities from all over the world. Our students once again made MCC proud by receiving the Honorable Mention Delegation Award.  This award reflects students’ deep knowledge of global issues their ability to debate with other delegates, their correct application of the rules of procedure, and their leadership in proposing creative solutions to critical global problems and in drafting working papers jointly with other delegates and working to create consensus around working papers which eventually developed into actual resolutions.

On April 26th we honored our students and celebrated their outstanding accomplishments and their hard work at our annual recognition reception, along with the student’s families, alumni, faculty, and staff.

The Model UN Program (especially this year) has been exceptional. How, you ask? The program provided students with a myriad of support across many domains: social, emotional, informational, and academic. For example, the program provides students with intellectual and psychosocial growth, especially by providing faculty guidance and mentoring. We believe we provide “high-impact practices,” including learning communities, collaborative assignments, problem-based learning, research, and service learning.

Our Honors Program challenges students to expand their education and prepares them to make a difference in their future professions and in the world, to step out of their comfort zones and fully experience the interdisciplinary nature of learning.

Finally, it may also interest the MCC community to know that a few of our students who were on the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugee) committee were targeted by the UNIQLO a large Japanese designing and advertising agency that is known all over the world, to be part of a nation-wide conversation on the critical issues related to forced displacement of refugees.  The students received a $200.00 card toward purchases by being part of this project.  Our students will be a part of the advertising campaign that starts in May.  The students will be shown on ads on social media, billboards, and advertisements nationwide.  The students that participated in UNHCR are John-Ryan Samarra, Nhu Tran, and Jason Maurice Myrick.

The team this year was also singled out as having outstanding “Resolution Papers” and worked in the spirit of being real diplomats.  Their papers were impressive and just last week the National Model United Nations Conference advised us that the student papers were submitted to the real UN for consideration.

Please consider, thanking and congratulating our students listed below for such a terrific job representing Monroe Community College.

  • Jason Sager
  • Charles Gallagher
  • Nhu Tran
  • Jarred Pollack
  • John- Ryan Samarra 
  • Matt Mazikas
  • Brandon Alcerreca
  • Jacob Sousa
  • Luke Edelman
  • Jason Maurice Myrick
  • Mohamed Souhail
  • Joseph Leichtner

Shirley Batistta-Provost
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Belonging
05/03/2023