IMC Student Employee Wins Leadership Award

At the Black Faculty and Staff Awards dinner recently Cortez Gilbert received the BFSA Outstanding Sophomore Leadership Award. That same night, he also received the Athlete Most Involved Outside Athletics Award from the Black Student Association (BSA).

Cortez began working in the Instructional Materials Center (IMC) of Belk Library and Information Commons in March, 2007.

Some of his accomplishments include:
• He began a ministry among our athletes called Athletes Strive for Understanding (A.S.U.) As President of the A.S.U., he leads a group of approximately 75 athletes in worship and fellowship every Tuesday at 7:30 pm
• On campus Cortez mentors at-risk children in cooperation with an ASU sorority
• Cortez has spoken to the youth groups of several churches in the Boone area
• As part of the outreach of the ASU football program, he spent a weekend at Crossnore School, a school serving children who can no longer live at home.
• He is a member of SAAB (Student Association Advisory Board)
• Member of Men’s Minority Leadership Circle
• As a starting corner-back, Cortez has helped lead ASU to its third national football championship
• Assists with the football team Bible study

Since coming to ASU in 2006, Cortez has spent his summers in Golden, Missouri, counseling at an inner city ministry summer camp called Kids Across America. He is a campus representative for this ministry, 2007-08. He received the Minority of the Month Award from BSA in October, 2007.

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