ANNUAL COLLEGE AWARDS

Every spring the College recognizes some of its highest-performing students, faculty, staff, and community members at its Annual Awards Ceremony. Many of the student recipients are hand-selected by their instructors who know them best and who have been with them throughout their journey at Carteret CC. Similarly, faculty and staff award recipients are nominated by their peers for their continued dedication to our students, one another, and the College mission.

Academic Excellence Award

This award recognizes one student selected by faculty and division deans based on GPA and service to the College and community. The objective of this award is to identify and individually recognize NC Community College System students who have consistently demonstrated academic excellence.

Arts & Science
Outstanding Student
in Sociology

This award is given to the student who achieves a quality grade point average in the discipline of sociology and shows strong understanding and application of the Sociological Imagination.

Associate Degree Nursing
Outstanding Student

This award recognizes the most outstanding Associate Degree Nursing student based on the following criteria: Demonstrates the art and science of nursing practice, shows a willingness to grow and adapt to new situations, exhibits leadership qualities that others can learn from, serves as a peer mentor, displays positive attitude about nursing, and exceeds expectations clinically and academically.

Associate in Arts
Outstanding Students

This award recognizes an outstanding student in the Associate in Arts program based on high academic performance and persistence in university transfer course completion. This recipient has maintained an overall GPA of 3.5 or over.

Associate in Engineering
Outstanding Student

This award recognizes an outstanding student in the Associate in Engineering program based on high academic performance and persistence in university transfer course completion. This recipient has maintained an overall GPA of 3.5 or over.

Associate in Fine Arts
Outstanding Student

This award was created to recognize students that repeatedly distinguish themselves from their peers through hard work, perseverance, talent, and overall creative excellence.

Associate in Science
Outstanding Student

This award recognizes an outstanding student in the Associate in Science pro-gram based on high academic performance and persistence in university transfer course completion. This recipient has maintained an overall GPA of 3.5 or over.

Business Administration
Outstanding Student

This award recognizes the most outstanding student in the Business Administration curriculum for exemplary attitude, dependability, and academic performance.

Carteret CC Foundation
High School Equivalency Award

This award recognizes the student with the highest high school equivalency scores from the Basic Skills Department. The College awards the recipient with one free curriculum class.

Cosmetology
Student of Excellence Award

This award is presented to someone who denotes the qualities of a beauty professional and presents a positive personality and exemplifies great customer service.

Culinary Arts
Outstanding Student

This award recognizes the most outstanding student in the Culinary Arts curriculum based on a combination of academic performance, personal characteristics, attitude, and service to the College.

Dallas Herring Achievement
Award Nomination

The Dallas Herring Achievement Award is established by the North Carolina Community College System to honor the late Dr. Dallas Herring whose philosophy of “taking people where they are and carrying them as far as they can go” is the guiding principle of the System. The award is given annually to a current or former community college student who best embodies Dr. Herring’s philosophy.

Emergency Medical Science
Exemplary Student

This award is given to the student who, over the course of the program, has demonstrated the skills and abilities that exemplify the professionalism of the career. This student is motivated to succeed, constantly strives to improve, and goes above and beyond what is required. This student also displays leadership qualities and supports and promotes the success of classmates.

Esthetics
Student of Excellence Award

This award is presented to someone who denotes the qualities of a beauty professional and displays professionalism in all instances.

Governor Robert Scott
Leadership Nomination

This award recognizes student leadership on a statewide level while also honoring former Governor Robert Scott. Governor Scott served as the State’s Chief Executive from 1968-1972 and then was president of the North Carolina Community College System from 1983-1995. Governor Scott passed away in January 2009, but he was very humbled that the system named a student award in his honor. This is an award designed to highlight outstanding curriculum student leadership and service.

Human Services Technology
Exceptional Student

This award recognizes one Human Services Technology student selected by the program chair based on academic performance and leadership both in the classroom and internship setting. The student embodies the ideals of a human service professional, demonstrating care and support for others, both classmates and clients.

Information Technology
Outstanding Student

This award recognizes the most outstanding student in the Information Technology curriculum based on a combination of academic performance, personal characteristics, attitude, and service to the College. The recipient must maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 on all coursework, be active in club activities and college life, exemplify professionalism in deportment, and give evidence of reliability, dependability, and other positive personal characteristics.

Manicuring
Student of Excellence Award

This award is presented to a student who denotes the qualities of a beauty professional and exemplifies great customer service.

Office Technologies
Outstanding Student

This award recognizes the student who demonstrates reliability, dependability, and other positive personal characteristics.

Paralegal Technology
Graduate of the Year

This award goes to a student who has shown excellence and consistency in Paralegal  Technology classes, who is committed to the program, and who exhibits stellar performance in a work-based learning internship.

Parker Mathematics
Scholarship Endowment

This award recognizes the most outstanding student who started mathematics education in college preparatory math courses. The recipient must have completed math courses through Pre-calculus Trigonometry with no less than “C” grades.

Photographic Technology
Student of the Year

This award recognizes the student who exemplifies excellence in the craft, professionalism in work ethic, motivation to improve, and consideration and support for classmates.

Radiography
Outstanding Student

This award recognizes the second-year student who has demonstrated exceptional knowledge and clinical skills in radiography, as well as professionalism, a positive attitude, respectfulness to others, and dependability and integrity throughout the program.

Respiratory Therapy
Leadership Award

This award is presented to a student that demonstrates the potential to lead and inspire others to set goals, follow those goals,  and encourages others to do the same. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” — John C Maxwell. This student is open-minded and has the ability to listen and seek and share knowledge with others. Embracing leadership as a student creates a path for future growth and success.

Respiratory Therapy
Outstanding Student
by Carteret Health Care in Memory of
Marlene Schoden

This award is presented by Carteret Health Care and recognizes the graduating Respiratory Therapy student who best demonstrates academic and clinical skills, as well as professionalism relative to clinical rotations.

Teacher Preparation
Outstanding Student

In 2021, the North Carolina Community College System developed a new pathway for students to begin their teacher preparation studies at a community college and then transfer to one of the educator preparation programs within the UNC System to complete a bachelor’s degree and become a licensed teacher in the K-12 system. The teacher preparation award aims to recognize a student who has excelled academically in the Teacher Preparation degree program and demonstrates outstanding qualities of a future educator.

Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act
Adult/Youth Grant Recipient

Formerly known as the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), was established in 1996, with Carteret Community College as the provider. The award was established to honor the grant participant who excelled academically as well as in all other aspects of the program. In 2013, Carteret Community College became the provider of the WIOA Adult, Youth, and Dislocated Worker Grant program; and, in 2015, a new award was established to honor the grant participant in those programs.

A+ In Teaching

This award recognizes adjunct faculty who exemplify the highest quality and standards within Carteret Community College. The objective of this award is to identify and individually recognize adjunct faculty who have consistently demonstrated excellence in teaching to their students and the College community. This is a peer-nominated award with a final selection by the Faculty Executive Committee.

Excellence in Teaching

This award recognizes faculty who exemplify the highest quality and standards throughout the NC Community College System. The objective of this award is to identify and individually recognize NC Community College System faculty who have consistently demonstrated excellence in teaching to their students and the College. This is a peer-nominated award with a final selection made by the Faculty Executives Committee.

Meritorious Service Award
Faculty & Staff

This award recognizes both instructional and non-instructional employees who consistently perform their normal and customary duties in an exemplary fashion, and who routinely assume responsibilities above and beyond those normally expected of college employees without regard to time or compensation. This is a peer-nominated award.

Staff Person of the Year

This award recognizes non-instructional staff who have consistently shown excellent performance and commitment to the community college mission. This is a peer-nominated award with a final selection made by the Staff Executive Committee.

Student Nominated Faculty of The Year

This award is significant because it reflects the student’s voice on who they thought was the teacher that went  above and beyond to help their students succeed.

Dr. Joseph T. Barwick Civic Award

The Dr. Joseph T. Barwick Civic Award was created in 2010 in honor of former Carteret CC President Joe Barwick. The award highlights volunteers in the county who exemplify a similar dedication to community service that Dr. Barwick demonstrated during his tenure as President of the college.