Sandra A. Mason Award

The Board of Directors of the Brockport Auxiliary Service Corporation (BASC), vendors, and friends established the Sandra A, Mason Award in 2006 to recognize the former BASC executive director who retired that year after 25 years with the organization. The award provides a scholarship for a student who is a relative of a BASC employee.

BASC is a not-for-profit corporation that contributes to SUNY Brockport’s bottom line by operating the bookstore, dining services, and vending machines. Previously, it also operated parking services.

While Mrs. Mason served as executive director, BASC completed reconstruction of the Harrison Dining Hall, rehabilitation of the Seymour Hall (now Seymour College Union) East Wing, construction of Union Square in Seymour Hall (now the Square at the Union), and the Raye Conrad Welcome Center. She understood the changing expectations of students who had grown up with restaurant and fast-food dining as part of their lives and surveyed student opinions every three years to learn what needed improvement.

During her tenure, BASC became one of the top corporations of its kind in the nation, receiving dozens of accolades for service to students and support for the college. Brockport was recognized as offering the best dining experience among SUNY schools from 1994 until Mrs. Mason’s retirement. She received a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in 2005. She received five Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards from the National Association of Colleges and Universities. She also received the Robert Golan Award, one of the highest honors for a member of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services in 1997.

Students who qualify for the Sandra A. Mason Award have a relative, either blood, spousal, or contextual, who have played relevant role at BASC through at least two years of service to the organization. Students may be undergraduate or graduate, incoming or continuing, and they must work at least part-time while attending Brockport. Undergraduate students must have a GPA of at least 2.5 and graduate student must have a GPA of at least 3.0.