By Benjamin Cox on May 11, 2021 at 11:40am
A Lincoln Land Community College student has been honored as one of 72 scholars in the nation as a top community college scholar.
Jennifer Haggerty of Chandlerville was named a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer scholar. Haggerty will be awarded up to $40,000 over the next 3 years to complete a Bachelors Degree as one of 72 community college students across the nation. Haggerty was selected from a pool of over 1,300 applicants from 370 community colleges across the country.
Haggerty is an active member of LLCC’s Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society chapter, is also one of two LLCC students chosen as members of the 2021 All-Illinois Academic Team and was named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leader of Promise Scholar. She returned to college after 17 years in the workforce. After LLCC, she plans to pursue a bachelor’s degree in nursing and hopes to attend graduate school to become a pediatric nurse practitioner.