Melissa Tagert receives Caron Treatment Centers Award from Alvernia University

2014 Apr 14

With Commencement less than a month away, graduating seniors at Alvernia University received awards during the annual Honors Convocation on Sunday, April 13, 2014. Melissa Yvonne Tagert earned the Caron Treatment Centers Award from the School of Graduate & Adult Education.

The Caron Treatment Centers Award of Excellence is presented to a Main Campus behavioral health major who most personifies outstanding achievement in the area of academics, who has received positive peer recognition, and who has made personal contributions to the overall good of the behavioral health program.

Tagert of Reading, Pa., will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in May.

ALVERNIA is a distinctive Franciscan university, grounded in the Catholic and liberal arts traditions, that combines diverse academic opportunities with personal attention and an unmatched commitment to community service. Alvernia empowers students to become "ethical leaders with moral courage." Through real-world learning and the challenging guidance of faculty mentors, they discover their passion for life and turn what they love into lifetimes of career success and personal fulfillment. Alvernia students do well and do good.