20 Named to All-USA First Team
Jackson, MS - Twenty community college students have been named to the 2008
All-USA First Team for Community and Junior Colleges. These students
were recognized during the recent Presidents Breakfast hosted by Phi Theta
Kappa during the annual convention of the American Association of Community
Colleges.
Sponsored by the American Association of Community
Colleges, Phi Theta Kappa and USA TODAY, the All-USA Academic Team consists
of outstanding two-year college students who are selected based on outstanding
academic achievement, campus and community service, and an essay about
their most significant endeavor while attending a community college.
Twenty First Team members each receive stipends of $2,500. Members of First,
Second and Third Teams and their colleges receive national recognition
through coverage in USA TODAY.
The 2008 First Team Members are:
Jeffrey
Arnold
Parkland College
Illinois
Nathan Crock
St.
Petersburg College
St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus
Florida
Leanne
Dogoldogol
Mount San Antonio College
California
Donna
Gosbee
Laramie County Community College
Cheyenne Campus
Wyoming
Kahee
Jo
Skyline College
California
David Kariuki
Essex
County College
New Jersey
Jacob Lane
Danville Area
Community College
Illinois
Rhiannon Lombard
Northern
Essex Community College
Haverhill Campus
Massachusetts
Mary
Mansfield
Finger Lakes Community College
New York
Felipe
Matos
Miami Dade College
Wolfson Campus
Florida
Jacob
Neal
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Virginia
Ashley
Odell
Manchester Community College
Connecticut
Promise
Olomo
Prince George's Community College
Maryland
Dharmesh
Patel
Richland College
Texas
Viktoryia Schnose
Johnson
County Community College
Kansas
Morris Sheriff
Borough
of Manhattan Community College
New York
Ana Tavares
Bevill
State Community College
Hamilton Campus
Alabama
Eiko
Tsukamoto
Fullerton College
California
Kojo Wallace
Bronx
Community College
New York
Michelle Word
Tarrant
County College
Northeast Campus
Texas
For a complete
list of Second and Third Team members see the Phi Theta Kappa website.
The
student receiving the highest All-USA Academic Team application score
in each state was named a New
Century Scholar and represented his or her state in the opening
ceremonies at the AACC Convention. Each New Century Scholar received a
$2,000 scholarship. The
New Century Scholar program is sponsored annually by the American
Association of Community Colleges, The Coca-Cola Foundation, the Coca-Cola
Scholars Foundation, and Phi Theta Kappa.
Phi Theta Kappa International
Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest
honor society in American higher education with more than 1,250 chapters
on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States,
Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands,
the Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United
Arab Emirates and U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million
students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately
100,000 students inducted annually.
