The highest-achieving students at Southwestern Community College were honored in the annual Academic Awards Ceremony on April 16 in Myers Auditorium on the college’s Jackson Campus.
Among the honorees were 74 students who received “high honors” for maintaining a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA.
Jonathan Mallard, a Franklin resident enrolled in the Associate Degree Nursing – RIBN program, was named the N.C. Community College System Academic Excellence award recipient.
The Charles McConnell New Century Scholar Award went to Makahla Chandler of Franklin, and David Coulter of Whittier received the Dallas Herring Achievement Award – given annually in honor of one of the state’s earliest advocates for community colleges.
Glenn Barnett of Robbinsville won the Bob Scott Leadership Award, named after the former N.C. governor who also served as president of the state’s community college system for 12 years.
The following “Students of Distinction” were also honored: Ginger Alfrey, Barnett, Sarah Jane Blackburn, Katlin Bradley, Amber Brown, Whitney Coggins, David Coulter, Tina Cronberger, Elizabeth Crowe, Jacob Eilers, Madilynn Franklin, Ariel Giles, Ashlye Johnson, Dalton Jones, Tazanna Jones, Mark Kaserman, Lauren Kirby, Jessica Koch, Stacey Lindsay, Jo Loewy, Diane Mahoney, Heather Mallard, Jonathan Mallard, Brittany Martin, Michael Sherman, Lindsey Stephens, Kathryn Sumrell and Linneah Taylor.
To qualify for the “Academic Honors” portion of the program, each student had to earn a minimum of 30 semester hours of credit within the last four years by the end of the fall semester at SCC, be enrolled in the spring semester and have a cumulative Grade Point Average of 3.5 or above.
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