ECTC Student Awarded KACTE Scholarship
An Elizabethtown Community and Technical College student is the winner of a Kentucky state scholarship awarded to just one undergraduate student. Steve Davis, of Greensburg, was selected to receive the Carl D. Perkins Assistanceship Award. The award is given by the Kentucky Association for Career and Technical Education to one secondary and one postsecondary student each year.
In the Spring semester Davis was awarded the 2009 Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) Undergraduate Student Scholarship. The scholarship was based on academics, leadership, well-articulated goals and disability community service, as well as letter of recommendation. An AHEAD scholarship was also awarded to one graduate student.
Davis has earned a place on the ECTC President’s List with a perfect 4.0 grade point average at ECTC and high praise from his faculty advisor and coordinator of the criminal justice program, Larry Kelly. “Steve is a student who has always been prepared for class. He is extremely bright, mature and very dedicated to learning,” said Kelly. “Steve is a great resource in the study of juvenile justice because he worked in that area for so many years. He is a pleasure to have in class and takes his studies seriously.” Davis was awarded the Honors Award in Criminal Justice last Spring, the Walker C. Cunningham Outstanding Sophomore Award, and the L.F. and Ruth Brewer Memorial Scholarship at ECTC’s Honors Recognition Program. He was also been accepted into the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society.
Steve Davis’ background and experience provide strong support for his goal to earn a degree in criminal justice and work in corrections, prison administration or probation/parole. He served for more than a decade as a pastor, eight years in Adult and Juvenile Corrections--with five years as Director of Operations at the Juvenile facility, before he was injured in a job-related accident, and served as a military policeman in the National Guard. He is committed to working with youth to help break the cycles of crime and recidivism through rehabilitation and opportunity.
Davis will graduate from ECTC Fall semester 2009.