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A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

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Brooks met Naomi Hodge-Muse, co-author of Tales of Koehler Hollow , in 2012. Brooks takes pride in his profession, telling unheard stories and promoting the humanity and dignity of others’ lives. “If Tales of Koehler Hollow is a fascinating read which I highly recommend.”

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Jacqie McWilliams

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McWilliams spent nine years at the NCAA, managing NCAA championships, to include serving as director of the Division I women’s basketball tournament from 2006-2009 and the Division I men’s basketball tournament from 2007-2012. McLendon Scholarship Foundation Board. She was appointed to the John B.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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We have excellent outcomes on that; we have great support from our legislature that provides a dual credit scholarship that removes financial barriers,” says Ellis. “We While total enrollment in KCTCS has declined since 2012, URM enrollment has increased. Sustaining success Retention rates have steadily increased.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

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BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. Waller does not come from an engineering background, but when he began studying for his master’s degree in counseling and human development, he found himself fascinated with engineering, which led him to Virginia Tech for his doctoral studies in curriculum instruction.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

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These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. Recommendations for Nurturing the Brilliance of Black Males Ensure that Black male voices are centered in conversations on academic and college support (Harper, 2012). Fletcher Jr.

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

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Fuentes, who is set to begin her senior year as a scholarship student at the University of California, Riverside, this fall, is majoring in education, society, and human development with a minor in political science. Then came 2012 and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Priscila Fuentes is one of those students.