20 City Colleges Students Announced as Semifinalists for Prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarship

Today, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced the semifinalists under consideration for its highly-competitive Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, including 20 City Colleges of Chicago students.

This year, 467 semifinalists were chosen from a pool of more than 1,600 applicants and attend 212 community colleges in 43 states. The 20 City Colleges students make up more than half of the 34 semifinalists selected from the state of Illinois.

The prestigious Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship offers recipients up to $55,000 for two to three years to attend a four-year college or university. The recipients will be announced in May.

Please join us in congratulating the following students:

• Benny Acar – City Colleges of Chicago: Harry S. Truman College
• Mubashir Aleem – City Colleges of Chicago: Wilbur Wright College
• Kayla Bentley – City Colleges of Chicago: Harold Washington College
• Danna Bodero – City Colleges of Chicago: Harold Washington College
• Mario Bradley – City Colleges of Chicago: Harold Washington College
• Hugo Correa – City Colleges of Chicago: Wilbur Wright College
• Glory Daniels – City Colleges of Chicago: Malcolm X College
• Valerie Dutan Molina – City Colleges of Chicago: Wilbur Wright College
• Marbella Flores – City Colleges of Chicago: Harold Washington College
• Dejen Gebremichael – City Colleges of Chicago: Harry S. Truman College
• Cristian Guarnizo – City Colleges of Chicago: Malcolm X College
• Chella Hairston – City Colleges of Chicago: Harold Washington College
• Michael Kattner – City Colleges of Chicago: Wilbur Wright College
• Erum Khan – City Colleges of Chicago: Wilbur Wright College
• Osmar Mora – City Colleges of Chicago: Wilbur Wright College
• Alexis Murphy – City Colleges of Chicago: Harold Washington College
• Suzi Ngafo Kengne – City Colleges of Chicago: Harry S. Truman College
• Kimberlyn Villeda – City Colleges of Chicago: Malcolm X College
• Dale Wright – City Colleges of Chicago: Malcolm X College
• Zoe Zhang – City Colleges of Chicago: Richard J. Daley College

You can read about some of City Colleges’ past Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship recipients here.