Academics

The following SUNY Jamestown Community College students received academic awards from the Jamestown Campus in May: 

Almond: Hannah Rech (OT Impact Award) 

Ashville: Ian Heath (Dr. Raymond J. Johnson Memorial Chemistry Award), Riley Seekings (Elaine Johnson Memorial Award) 

Bemus Point: Thomas Loomis (Physics Awards), Gloria Marsh (Music Award), Caelan Register (Mathematics Award), Sunnhi Suber (Robert Lee Scharmann Drama Scholarship) 

Brocton: Nathanial Tresler (Teacher Education Award) 

The following SUNY Jamestown Community College students received academic awards from the Cattaraugus County Campus in May:  

Allegany: Andee Smith (Roger C. Seager Presidential Scholarship) 

Bolivar: Guinevere Coats (Roger C. Seager Presidential Scholarship), Ethan Jones (Homeland Security Award), Samantha Simon (Business Administration - A.S. Award) 

SUNY Jamestown Community College’s Abigail Hill and Ayomideji Israel-Akinbo are the college’s 2025 recipients of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. They, along with more than 200 students across the State University of New York system, were recognized on Tuesday during a ceremony at the Hart Theatre in the Egg in Albany. 

The SUNY Jamestown Community College Foundation is proud to announce the establishment of the Outstanding Future Educator Scholarship, a new fund created by Delta Kappa Gamma, an international society for women educators.

SUNY Jamestown Community College’s Laura Parmenter was recently honored with the Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology Excellence in Instructional Support award for community colleges by the State University of New York. 

Parmenter is JCC’s director of Online Learning and interim director of the Learning Commons, which provides students with access to library services, tutoring help, and accessibility support. 

OLEAN, N.Y. — Paul Jewett pulled out two manilla folders that had been securely tucked away in a dresser drawer in his room at the Eden Heights assisted living community. 

He hadn’t rummaged through the contents of those folders much over the years. But they’ve been in the back of his mind, and they mean a lot to him. 

One contains his college transcript, in perfect condition, protected by a plastic covering. The other is filled with original papers he wrote on typewriter while taking classes at SUNY Jamestown Community College in the 1980s. 

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — Students from Fredonia, Frewsburg, and Southwestern high schools recently participated in a health and science journalism workshop coordinated by the Chautauqua Healthy Youth and Schools Program, Chautauqua Health Network, and SUNY Jamestown Community College.  

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — The SUNY Jamestown Community College Foundation recently received a $10,000 gift from the Michael Boedo Community Foundation. The gift endows the Michael Boedo Foundation Emergency Relief Fund, which will support the JCC Nursing program for years to come. 

In a lot of ways, welding is in Jacob Elliott’s genes. 

His grandfather, Bob Elliott, was a welder for a long time at Dresser-Rand in Olean and still teaches the craft to students at SUNY Jamestown Community College. Elliott’s father also welded. 

"My grandpa always had stuff lying around the house,” Elliott said. “I was always questioning what it was. The idea of welding kind of intrigued me. So I went and I took it at BOCES for my junior and senior year, and then it brought me here.” 

The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing will visit SUNY Jamestown Community College on March 26 to conduct a site visit for continuing accreditation of its Associate in Applied Science Nursing program. 

The site team invites the public to meet them and share comments about the program in person at 3:30 p.m. that day at the following JCC locations: 

Cattaraugus County Campus: College Center boardroom, 260 N. Union St., Olean