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SUNY Jamestown Community College recently introduced a scholarship that will make higher education more affordable for Pennsylvania students. 

The Good Neighbors Scholarship is available to residents in McKean, Warren, and Erie counties in PA and covers half the cost of out-of-state tuition to JCC. That means eligible full- or part-time students can attend JCC for the in-state rate. 

SUNY Jamestown Community College’s commencement ceremonies will feature student speakers from the Cattaraugus County and Jamestown campuses. 

Samantha Simon will speak at the Cattaraugus County Campus ceremony at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 16 at the Olean YMCA, and Tarryn Meyer at the Jamestown ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 17 in the on-campus Physical Education Complex gymnasium. 

Nominations are being sought for the 2025 alumni awards given by the SUNY Jamestown Community College Foundation. These include the Distinguished Alumnus Award and Career Community Awards. 

Since 1980, the alumni association has presented accomplished alumni with the Distinguished Alumnus Award, the association’s highest honor. The award is given to those who have typified the college’s tradition of excellence and brought credit to the college through personal accomplishment, professional achievement, or humanitarian service. 

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. 

Kevin Kochersberger spent a part of April in the western Africa country of Benin. The Virginia Tech professor and 1981 SUNY Jamestown Community College graduate was there in hopes of expanding the African Drone and Data Academy he helped create. 

“It's been operational since 2020,” Kochersberger said of the UNICEF-funded program that started in Malawi in southeastern Africa. “We’ve graduated about 2,000 students, and our plan is to expand to other countries in Africa.” 

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.