The Community College President's Award is designed for transfer students who have leadership potential, are community-service oriented and have an excellent GPA.
Students are nominated by their community college’s president and receive a renewable full resident tuition award. (This award cannot combine with other waiver programs over the cost of tuition and fees.)
We accept nominations every year from:
- Centralia College
- Clark College
- Lower Columbia College
Contact your community college President’s Office for nomination information.
2022/23 recipients
Maddie Hennerty
Clark College
Maddie Hennerty is a first-generation Mexican American college student. She began working at 16 so she could afford college tuition. While working and attending college, she maintained a 3.96 GPA and was named to the Clark College Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. As a student affairs consultant at Clark College (she has since been promoted to student retention assistant), she played a key role in making the campus fully vaccinated and bringing students back in person. Maddie has received many honors, including the OSWALD outstanding student employee award, the Paul and Kathryn Welsh scholarship, and the Clark College Alumni Association scholarship. At WSU Vancouver, she is majoring in sociology and minoring in Spanish and criminal justice.
Trinity Butterfield
Centralia College
Trinity Butterfield has excelled academically ever since kindergarten in Onalaska, Wash., even though, at age 4, she was a year younger than her peers when she started. She maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout middle school and high school. She has played the clarinet for seven years and was a big part of her high school’s Symphonic Band. The pandemic didn’t slow her down. She started at Centralia College in 2020 through the Running Start program, with fully online classes while taking only band in high school. She continued her academic success at Centralia with a perfect GPA for fall quarter 2021 and received her A.A. degree in June 2022 at the age of 17. Trinity is majoring in earth and environmental science at WSU Vancouver and hopes to become a national park ranger and eventually do ecological fieldwork or study natural disasters.
Eakthapor Shinvoranont
Lower Columbia College
His name is Eakthapor Shinvoranont, but everyone calls him Ming. Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, he had long dreamed of studying in the United States. He was an exchange student during his sophomore year at Toutle Lake High School in Toutle, Wash. After high school, he earned his associate degree at Lower Columbia College. The math and physics classes he took at LCC stimulated his interest in engineering. After graduating from WSU Vancouver, he hopes to pursue a master’s degree in aerospace engineering.
Prior award recipients
Recipient | College | Year |
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Moses Korir | Clark College | 2021/22 |
Friedrich Ross | Centralia College | 2021/22 |
Kathleen Neuhalfen | Lower Columbia College | 2021/22 |
Evans Kaame | Clark College | 2020/21 |
Matt Rounsley | Centralia College | 2020/21 |
Tia Verhasselt | Lower Columbia College | 2020/21 |
Esmeralda “Vita” Blanco | Clark College | 2019/20 |
Josiah Cowin | Centralia College | 2019/20 |
Ashley Smith | Lower Columbia College | 2019/20 |
Heather Beaird | Centralia College | 2018/19 |
Clinton Howard | Lower Columbia College | 2018/19 |
Grace Moe | Clark College | 2018/19 |
Josiah J. Corwin | Centralia College | 2017/18 |
Nicholas Freese | Clark College | 2017/18 |
Andrew Jaspers | Lower Columbia College | 2017/18 |
Tanner Byman | Lower Columbia College | 2016/17 |
Elsa Gomez | Portland Community College | 2016/17 |
Bailey Peters | Centralia College | 2016/17 |
Nuvia Ramirez-Romero | Mt. Hood Community College | 2016/17 |
Holly Varner | Clark College | 2016/17 |
Cheyenne DeFrates | Lower Columbia College | 2015/16 |
Alseny Diallo | Portland Community College | 2015/16 |
Kathy Fockler | Clark College | 2015/16 |
Joscha Oswald | Centralia College | 2015/16 |
Skye Troy | Mt. Hood Community College | 2015/16 |
Yesenia Herrera | Portland Community College | 2014/15 |
Natasha Hambrook | Clark College | 2014/15 |
Beija Robbins | Mt. Hood Community College | 2014/15 |
Rashida Ullah | Centralia College | 2014/15 |
Anna Davis | Lower Columbia College | 2014/15 |
Momodou Musa Bah | Portland Community College | 2013/14 |
Ramona Vercher | Clark College | 2013/14 |
Brett Merritt | Lower Columbia College | 2013/14 |
Antonio Guerrero | Mt. Hood Community College | 2013/14 |
Travis Kinney | Centralia College | 2013/14 |
Hoa Le | Lower Columbia College | 2012/13 |
John Hoffman | Centralia College | 2012/13 |
Britany Martin | Portland Community College | 2012/13 |
Tami Eldridge | Clark College | 2012/13 |
Beatriz Madriz-Rodriguez | Mt. Hood Community College | 2012/13 |
Inva Begolli | Clark College | 2011/12 |
Nicole Buckner | Portland Community College | 2011/12 |
Margaret Debevec | Centralia College | 2011/12 |
Tia Glover | Mt. Hood Community College | 2011/12 |
Brian Jurvakainen | Lower Columbia College | 2011/12 |
Sheila Rae Henrickson | Clark College | 2010/11 |
Melissa Knudson | Lower Columbia College | 2010/11 |
George W. Lewis III | Mt. Hood Community College | 2010/11 |
Hanna Mekonen | Portland Community College | 2010/11 |
Daniel Morrison | Centralia College | 2010/11 |
Dora Hernandez | Clark College | 2009/10 |
Janine Johnston | Mt. Hood Community College | 2009/10 |
Golnaz Koloushani | Centralia College | 2009/10 |
Jeffrey Northington | Lower Columbia College | 2009/10 |
Henry Ortega | Portland Community College | 2009/10 |
Cynthia Bergman | Centralia College | 2008/09 |
Angela Dahlke | Lower Columbia College | 2008/09 |
Marneet Lewis | Portland Community College | 2008/09 |
Kenneth Nyholm | Clark College | 2008/09 |
Nicole Chittock | Lower Columbia College | 2007/08 |
Carol Lopez-Gustin | Clark College | 2007/08 |
Victor McBrooks | Portland Community College | 2007/08 |
Stanley Noga | Centralia College | 2007/08 |
Vanessa Brockman | Centralia College | 2006/07 |
Asalie Groff | Lower Columbia College | 2006/07 |
Pamela Sullivan | Clark College | 2006/07 |
Maria Cook | Centralia College | 2005/06 |
Sherry Murphy | Clark College | 2005/06 |
Steven Gresswell | Clark College | 2005/06 |
Jennifer McLean | Lower Columbia College | 2005/06 |
Veronica Ross | Portland Community College | 2005/06 |