Community Colleges Honor Students, Celebrate Academic Success
RALEIGH – The Governor has proclaimed April as North Carolina Community College Excellence in Education Month. Students from all 58 community colleges are receiving awards for academic excellence, in addition to the Governor Robert W. Scott Student Leadership Award and the Dr. Dallas Herring Achievement Award.
“The students receiving these awards have much to celebrate,” says NC Community College System President, Dr. Scott Ralls. “Whether they’re training for careers in health care, welding or other technical fields, or planning to transfer to a university, they are taking the next step toward reaching their goals and defining their own success.”
Sean Ross, a student at Craven Community College, is the 2014 recipient of the Governor Robert W. Scott Student Leadership Award. The award, sponsored by the North Carolina Association of Community College Presidents (NCACCP), was created in 2004 to recognize student leadership on a statewide level while also honoring former Governor Scott, one of the earliest supporters of the NC Community College System and the fourth System President from 1983 until 1994. Each award recipient receives a plaque and a $1,000 scholarship from the NC Community Colleges Foundation.
Oujimi “Jamir” Jumoke, a Cape Fear Community College student, is the 2014 recipient of the Dr. Dallas Herring Achievement Award. The award was established in 2010 by the NCACCP to honor the late Dr. Dallas Herring, considered one of the founding fathers of community colleges in North Carolina. The award is bestowed annually upon a current or former student who best embodies Dr. Herring’s philosophy of “taking people where they are and carrying them as far as they can go.” Each award recipient receives a plaque and a $1,000 scholarship from the NC Community Colleges Foundation.
One student from each of the 58 community colleges received Academic Excellence Awards (AEA). AEA selection requirements are consistent with Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society criteria:
- Must be currently enrolled,
- Must have completed at least 12 semester hours in an associate degree program, and
- Must have a cumulative grade point average of no less than 3.25.
Each student receives a plaque and medallion in honor of their academic accomplishments.
Carrie L. Parker, Alamance Community College
William K. Riddle, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
Vickie Wilkinson, Beaufort County Community College
Victoria Pait, Bladen Community College
Joao Washington Bezerra, Blue Ridge Community College
Sharon H. Callender, Brunswick Community College
Katie Riddle, Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute
Tria Brown, Cape Fear Community College
Allison P. Gay, Carteret Community College
Michael Wilkins, Catawba Valley Community College
Scott E. Butcher, Central Carolina Community College
Anza Abbas, Central Piedmont Community College
Anna Marie Vagnozzi, Cleveland Community College
Alexandra Reinhold, Costal Carolina Community College
Amanda Everett, College of The Albemarle
Kayla Schliewe, Craven Community College
Kristi Wallace, Davidson County Community College
Alexandra Rae Cox, Durham Technical Community College
Nina White Sinclair, Edgecombe Community College
Natalie O’Mahoney, Fayetteville Technical Community College
Samantha Sharp, Forsyth Technical Community College
Marjorie Heidi Heavner, Gaston College
Dustin Andrew Darnell, Guilford Technical Community College
Georgiana Couden, Halifax Community College
Nicholas Alexander Wilson, Haywood Community College
Chad Pettit, Isothermal Community College
Brianne G. Fawe, James Sprunt Community College
Margaret Raynor, Johnston Community College
Kayland Reid Adams, Lenoir Community College
Sayra Alexander Delgadillo Chavarria, Martin Community College
Timothy Mark Wyatt, Mayland Community College
Stacy Lynn Jones, McDowell Technical Community College
Marlene Clermont, Mitchell Community College
Sydney Payne Williams, Montgomery Community College
Jessica Marie Avila, Nash Community College
Frankee Gibbs, Pamlico Community College
Michael Zizzi, Piedmont Community College
La’Quon A. Rogers, Pitt Community College
Ivy Marie Lindsey, Randolph Community College
Scot Edward Shields, Richmond Community College
Michael Joyner, Roanoke-Chowan Community College
June Edwards, Robeson Community College
Phillip G. Brooks, Rockingham Community College
Timothy Wilson, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
Shonita R. Vann, Sampson Community College
Joseph Max Harris, Sandhills Community College
Amy Morrison, South Piedmont Community College
Aimee Lessard, Southeastern Community College
Jamee Pelcher, Southwestern Community College
Matthew Brian Reese, Stanly Community College
Michelle Goble, Surry Community College
Sheree Peters, Tri-County Community College
Rebecca Lynn Anderson, Vance-Granville Community College
Kumar Chandrashekaran, Wake Technical Community College
Nathan J. Trent, Wayne Community College
Xia Vang, Western Piedmont Community College
John Welborn, Wilkes Community College
Carolyn Denise Jordan, Wilson Community College
