Twenty-four students received Two-Year Transfer Scholarships, which award $5,000 each toward the tuition of exemplary students transferring from a two-year college to a four-year college or university to finish their accounting degrees.
Recipients must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 and intend to major in accounting or a related field at their four-year school. A task force made up of AICPA Student Recruitment Committee members and CPA volunteers selects the recipients based on academic excellence, leadership skills, volunteerism, and overall commitment to becoming a licensed CPA. Recipients also become Student Affiliate Members of the AICPA.
The 2018—19 AICPA Foundation Two-Year Transfer Scholarship award recipients, listed along with the four-year college they are currently attending, are:
Jared Allen, University of Utah
Sharee Alpeche, University of Hawaii—West Oahu
Nyia Archie, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Jacob Coker, Auburn University
Kobe Cong, Oregon State University
Austin Dahlstrom, Florida Atlantic University
Gabriel Envani, University of Texas at Dallas
Cynthia Garcia, Northern Illinois University
Andrea Godinez, Illinois State University
Sarah Grigg, George Mason University
Colleen McNulty, Towson University
Samantha Moreno, University of Southern California
George Parkinson, Dixie State University
Gabriela Quintanar, Florida Atlantic University
Marlu Cicero Reyes, University of the Pacific
Rochelle Stanley, Mercy College
Danny Tolayo, DePaul University
Hoa Tran, California State University, Fullerton
Diana Tupikova, Gonzaga University
Christopher Veno, Sacred Heart University
Troy Waller, Arizona State University
Christian Watkins, University of West Florida
Taylor Wilson, California State University, Los Angeles
Joseph Wray, University of Massachusetts Amherst