YOLA (Adamawa) – The American University of Nigeria (AUN) President, Dr. Margee Ensign, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the American University of Paris.
At the ceremony in Paris, she shared the stage with Lisa Anderson, the President of the American University of Cairo, and Benjamin Millepied, Director, Paris Opera Ballet. The honorees, says AUP, are distinguished individuals whose accomplishments are consistent with the university’s mission and core values, to recognise the recipient’s contributions to a specific field or to society in general.
President Ensign was cited for her leadership role in using education to promote peace, community development, and empowerment through a local platform, the Adamawa Peace Initiative (API), which she chairs.
The degree was presented to Ensign in the French capital during the AUP Commencement. Citing AUN’s engagement with the refugees of northeast Nigeria, Ensign used the occasion to urge the new graduates to find solutions to old, new, and unprecedented problems challenging the world today.
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In Paris, Dr. Ensign was particularly acknowledged for undertaking humanitarian relief work in northeast Nigeria and for providing food aid to more than 270,000 internally displaced people sheltering with family members in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
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