AKA Foundation $10K award goes to ACBA student
August 3, 2015
CHARLESTON, SC – Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation [EAF] presented one of three Presidential Scholar citations to American College of the Building Arts [ACBA] incoming freshman Crystal Kornickey, at the EAF’s Awards Luncheon Friday, July 17 in Chicago, Illinois. The $10,000 scholarship awarded to the Charleston student, was presented by AKA Sorority International President, Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson. The luncheon highlighted the group’s biennial Leadership Seminar, attended by nearly 5,200 college-trained members of the African American sorority.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, is an international service organization that was founded in 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. In 1980 the sorority started the EAF, whose current assets are estimated at $10 million. According to the group, the EAF has presented more than $3.5 million in scholarships and community assistance awards to over 3,000 students and community organizations around the world.
“Ms. Kornickey has earned this special honor because of her commitment to the pursuit of lifelong scholastic goals, and her record of service to numerous civic causes,” said ACBA president Colby M. Broadwater III. “We salute AKA Sorority for making education a top priority and dreams a reality for so many deserving students.”
Earlier this year, ACBA awarded Crystal a full scholarship to pursue her higher education goal. She is on the path toward a Bachelor of Applied Science with a specialization in the study of architectural plaster. The College is the nations only private, non-profit college to offer the Bachelors of Applied Sciences degree with specializations in one of these areas of focus: forged architectural iron, architectural carpentry, timber framing, architectural stone carving, masonry and plaster. The ACBA scholarship is set-aside for a Charleston City Housing Authority resident.
For more information on ACBA, visit: www.buildingartscollege.us or call 843-266-7834.
