Tucker Sholtes
  • business administration
  • Class of 2015
  • Endicott, NY

SUNY Oswego junior Tucker Sholtes of Endwell receives ACT scholarship

2013 Sep 26

SUNY Oswego junior Tucker Sholtes of Endwell, a business administration and public relations major, has received a 2013 ACT for Excellence and Student Initiative Scholarship from SUNY's Association of Council Members and College Trustees for his work in launching a flood-relief project in the Southern Tier following Hurricane Irene.

The award includes a $1,000 scholarship and $250 given in the recipient's name to the charity of his or her choice.

The president of Oswego's chapter of the Enactus student organization in the School of Business, Sholtes, then a first-semester freshman, launched the 2011 cleanup and rejuvenation project with the assistance and advice of Enactus, SUNY Oswego's Office of Service Learning and Community Service and Broome County's Habitat for Humanity, among others.

In Oswego, Sholtes has been active with the city's community garden and raised funds to develop a program to teach children about the importance of gardening. In his application for the scholarship, he described his "commitment to making the world a better place until the day I die." Sholtes is a founding member of Oswego's International Business Student Organization and has been a resident assistant and a first-year peer adviser.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2014, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2014 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges," as well as its 2013 list of "best value" colleges and universities nationally.

A 152-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls about 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.