VGCC Photo attached of Goldie Davis.
Vance-Granville Community College recently nominated Goldie J. Davis of Henderson, a student in the college’s School-Age Education program, for the North Carolina Community College System’s Governor Robert W. Scott Student Leadership Award. The award was established in 2004 in honor of Scott, who served as Governor of North Carolina from 1969-1973, and later as President of the N.C. Community College System from 1983-1995. Each year, the N.C. Association of Community College Presidents bestows the honor on one community college student in recognition of his or her academic and leadership achievements. In 2011, VGCC student Katina Harris of Warrenton was one of six statewide finalists for the award. “It’s an honor to be chosen to represent VGCC,” Davis said. “I’ve learned so much at Vance-Granville, and my excitement about learning new things has never waned. My education here has exposed me to opportunities I didn’t know were available, and I’ve been given new avenues to use and enhance my leadership skills.”
Davis has been active in the VGCC Student Government Association, serving as public information officer during the 2010-11 year and as secretary during 2011-12. She has also served as secretary (2010-11) and later as vice president (2011-12) of the VGCC chapter of the Student North Carolina Association of Educators. Davis was inducted into Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for students of two-year colleges, in 2010. As a PTK member, she was one of VGCC’s nominees for the 2012 All-USA Academic Team and a recipient of a Coca-Cola “Leaders of Promise” Scholarship. Davis has made the Dean’s List each semester she has attended VGCC and received endowed Academic Achievement Scholarships from the college in 2011 and 2012. Outside of school, Davis serves as associate minister at Mount Zion Christian Church in Henderson coordinates the nursing home ministry for her church, leads a community women’s bible study group, and founded an outreach program for young women called “Victory Girls.”
“My desire has always been to help people in some way,” Davis said. “I want to make their lives better, especially those of children. The greatest way that I can impact people’s lives positively is through serving as a leader. As a leader, it is my responsibility to inspire people to do their very best as they serve with me in any organization.” She said that learning to be a leader as a VGCC student “has been an invaluable experience” that has helped her be more effective in the other roles she plays in life. “Leading has taught me to be an effective communicator. It has taught me how to inspire people to be more than they thought they could be. It has shown me that I can make a difference in a person’s life, and as I make a change in someone else’s life, I make a change in my own as well.” Davis is set to graduate with a School-Age Education degree in August but will continue taking College Transfer classes at VGCC as she prepares to continue her education at East Carolina University. She would like to complete a bachelor’s degree in education at ECU and work as a classroom teacher.