League Reaffirmation - Johnson County Community College

All­USA Academic
First Team
In 2007, Tren Qu was named to the All ­
USA Academic First Team for Community
and Junior Colleges. He was presented with
a medallion and a $2,500 check at the
AACC’s convention in April and was
featured in a full ­page article in USA Today.
Qu was also a New Century Scholar, the top
scholar in Kansas selected in a state ­level
competition, earning him $2,000 from the
Coca ­Cola Foundation, as well as a 2006
Congressional Award Gold Medalist. At
JCCC, Qu was Student Senate president,
Phi Theta Kappa vice president and 2006
Men’s Athletic Academic Champion.
“While each student is unique, and Tren
certainly qualifies in that category, the
majority of the students in Phi Theta
Kappa and the Honors Program have
two things in common. They tend to be
a year or two older than our average
college students, and they seem to be
more diverse. Tren is a prime example
of the ‘typical’ English ­as ­a ­second
­
language student who not only enters
college in the first two years in the
United States, but excels in all classes.
Phi Theta Kappa and Honors Program
students seem to have an unlimited
amount of energy, often displaying their
leadership abilities in the program and
throughout the campus. Tren was not
only a PTK officer and an Honors
Program student, but he was the
Student Senate president and
consistently volunteered for service
projects on and off campus.”
– Ruth Randall,
interim dean, Liberal Arts
Graphic design
Students from JCCC’s graphic design program were award
winners in the third annual AIGA Kansas City Chapter
graphic design competition. The A3 Awards were juried by
nationally acclaimed design leaders. JCCC’s student award
recipients were Preston Brigham, Michael Casey
DenBleyker and Carnise McIntosh (pictured above).
In addition, when the Advertising Club of Kansas City
presented the 2006 OMNI awards, several JCCC students
were honored. The OMNI awards are the local level of
competition in the American Advertising Federation’s
National ADDY Awards competition.
Nine of the 25 awards given to graphic design students from
regional Kansas and Missouri colleges and universities went
to JCCC’s graphic design students.
In May 2004, students in JCCC’s communication design
program won 10 awards, including Best of Show, in the STEP
ONE Student Design Awards, sponsored by Osborn & Barr
Communications, a marketing communications firm in Kansas
City, Mo. In addition to Best of Show, JCCC students won Best
in Category in three of the eight categories – ad campaign,
packaging and outdoor advertising.
Eight graphic design students had posters selected for yearlong
exhibition by SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on
Computer Graphics) at its international conference in May
2003. Thirty­one posters were selected for exhibition from
335 international entries from college, university and art
institute students.
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