Alumni

LBJ Outstanding Senior Award

The LBJ Outstanding Senior Award is given annually by the Alumni Association to a student as recognition for outstanding leadership, character, campus and community involvement, and academic success. Recipients must be candidates for graduation in May of the year that the award is conferred or have graduated the previous August or December. The recipient is recognized at the May commencement ceremony and receives a $1,500 stipend.

Previous LBJ Outstanding Senior Award honorees are listed in the All-Time Honor Roll.

Submit a Nomination

Nominations must be received by the Office of Alumni Relations prior to the deadline of Monday, March 15, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. CST.

2020 LBJ Outstanding Senior

Nakenya Minnieweather is a 2020 graduate with a bachelor's degree in fine arts and a major in performance and choreography. She was heavily involved as a Texas State student, including serving as Parliamentarian and Community Service Chair for Black Women United. Through her various roles on campus, she coordinated a donation drive for Hays County Women's Center and served on the committee that organizes the annual Texas State Veteran's Day Commemoration. In 2019, she was named both Student Foundation Committee Member of the Year and Texas State Homecoming Queen.

Eligibility

  1. Nominee must be a candidate for graduation at Texas State University in the spring of the year that the award is conferred or have graduated the preceding August or December.
  2. Nominee must have completed at least thirty (30) credit hours at Texas State University.
  3. Nominee must have demonstrated academic success.