Johannah Alilio and Apharnaa Suthananthan win Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award
The Dennis Mock Student Leadership Awards recognize graduating students who have made outstanding voluntary extracurricular contributions to their school or academic program department, their faculty, or to Toronto Metropolitan University as a whole. The awards acknowledge and encourage student participation in university affairs.
In naming the awards after Dennis Mock, Toronto Met recognizes his commitment to higher education. His leadership and dedication, demonstrated during his 28 years at the university, are qualities embodied in students chosen to receive this award - students committed to ‘making a difference’. This is a prestigious, non-monetary award.
For 25 years, the Dennis Mock Student Leadership Awards have recognized graduating students who have made outstanding voluntary extracurricular contributions to their school or academic program department, their faculty, or to Toronto Metropolitan University as a whole.
On May 29th, past recipients were invited to join us downtown Toronto for a special reception celebrating the 25th anniversary of the awards!
Recognized for her University-Wide contributions to student life via the English Course Union and presidency of the 2024 Society of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities, Johannah Alilio was awarded the Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award.
Recognized for her Faculty-Wide contributions to student life via the English Course Union and work on the Society of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities, Apharnaa Suthananthan was awarded the Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award.
In 1971 Dennis Mock joined TMU faculty in Social Sciences Department as a geography professor. He was part of a group who created the first Applied Geography program in Canada, offered for first time in 1975 at TMU. Between 1979 and 1987 he was the chair of the Geography Department. In 1987 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the Canadian Association of Geographers for the work he did on a committee that restructured the Ontario high school geography curriculum. In 1988 he was a visiting professor of geography for six weeks in Australia. On May 1, 1989 he was appointed TMU's Registrar. Up to this point Dennis Mock had participated in many committees and activities including Chair of the Academic space Planning Committee; Represented TMU on the Council of Ontario Universities OSIS liaison committee; Chair of Academic Term Committee of Academic Council; Chair of the GPA Committee; Member of Academic Council (now the Senate); Arbitrator to resolve faculty appeals (at least 3 occasions); Appeals Committee of the TMU Faculty Association; and Chair of the Arts Re-organization Committee. In 1989 he was appointed the Vice President Academic, a post he held for 11 years. Between August 1990 - Jan 1991 he was Acting President. In 2000 Dennis Mock retired from TMU and the University established the Dennis Mock Student Leadership Awards in honour of his years of service to the University.