Mahwah Student Receives Prestigious National Scholarship

MAHWAH, NJ — A township student is one of just 61 people to receive a prestigious college scholarship.

Woo Joon Kang and 60 others received the 2019 Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. More than 1,500 people applied for the scholarship.

The scholarship provides up to $40,000 annually for up to three years to complete a bachelor's degree.

Kang and two other Bergen Community College students received the scholarship.

Kang is a business administration major who recently founded a public speaking and coaching business that has more than 300 clients. He is the first man in Bergen Community College history to receive the scholarship.

"As a speech coach, I can say that winning the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship left me speechless for the first time in a long while," he said. "I am more than blessed to have had the support of Phi Theta Kappa, my chapter at Bergen, and my adviser. They have all been the basis for why I work so hard and how I was able to achieve what I never could dream of to accomplish. In every sense of the word, I am grateful to all those who have made an impact on me as well as the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for granting me this life-changing opportunity."

Kang and the other students are members of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society.

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