Business Major Receives Trustee’s Award for Outstanding Achievement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 26, 2002
Kathleen McPartland
530-898-4260
Business Major Receives Trustee’s Award for Outstanding Achievement
A senior accounting major at California State University, Chico has received the 2002 William R. Hearst/CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Dijana Fazlic is one of six students in the California State University system to receive the award. The Trustees’ award provides $3,000 of financial support to students who show superior academic performance, community service and personal accomplishments.
Fazlic has a double major in German and business administration with an option in accounting. Fazlic, who left Bosnia for Germany a decade ago, moved to the United States in 1996 with her mother, another family member and six-year-old son. She became a U.S. citizen last September.
Fazlic has excelled academically while supporting her son and other family members and volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. Pamela Easterly, the organization’s Chico area president, described her as “one of the most dedicated volunteers our organization has ever experienced.” She is moving into a new Habitat for Humanity home.
Her volunteer experience also includes working with the Red Cross, serving on the Associated Students Children’s Center board of directors, and serving on the Re-Entry Student Council. In addition, she teaches German to elementary children.
Fazlic’s achievements, highly significant in themselves, become even more so given a physical disability, which is the result of childhood poliomyelitis. During the last 15 years, she has had multiple surgeries on her feet, and still must “weigh every step,” as she says.
She plans to continue her studies, working toward a Ph.D. in business, and eventually become a teacher. “I want to be a member of society in such a way that my work is not only beneficial to my son and me, but that my work contributes to society as a whole,” said Fazlic.
Fazlic has also been honored with membership in the Golden Key Honor Society, Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
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