President Dan Mahony announced that Austin Parker, a Lancaster, South Carolina, resident
who earned a bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting,
finished with the highest cumulative GPA. Parker will return to Winthrop to earn his M.B.A. degree while he begins studying
to take the CPA exams. 
ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA - Winthrop University senior Austin Parker received the President's Award for Academic Excellence at the Dec. 17 Commencement at Winthrop Coliseum.
President Dan Mahony announced that Parker, a Lancaster, South Carolina, resident who earned a bachelor's
degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting, finished with the
highest cumulative GPA.
Parker will return to Winthrop to earn his M.B.A. degree while he begins studying to take the CPA exams.
Around 300 students received their bachelor's or master's degrees in the Dec. 17 ceremony.
For more information, contact Judy Longshaw, news and media services manager, at 803/323-2404 or e-mail her at longshawj@winthrop.edu.
