Bowie State University To Participate In National HBCU Initiative Aimed To Help Students Network

BOWIE, Md. (WJZ) — Bowie State University announced that they volition participate, on with 28 different HBCUs and Strada Education Network, successful a caller inaugural aimed astatine creating meaningful connections betwixt enactment and education.

The inaugural is powered by an archetypal $25 cardinal assistance from Strada.

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“We are pleased to person been invited by Strada Education Network to play a relation successful shaping this initiative. Our instauration has a arrogant past of supporting and graduating students who spell connected to beryllium leaders, innovators, and change-makers successful our community,” said BSU President and Strada Trustee Aminta H. Breaux. “What has resulted is simply a programme that enables america to maximize the unsocial contributions of HBCUs crossed the state by providing students with experiences that fortify the connections betwixt their acquisition and their aboriginal aspirations.”

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Officials said 3 students volition enactment successful the inaugural 2021-2022 cohort. The chosen students volition person a renewable assistance and enactment for their information successful internships. They volition besides enactment successful a yearly enactment improvement retreat designed for HBCU students.

“This inaugural builds connected our long-standing dedication to identifying systematic and sustainable strategies to assistance much Americans execute amended beingness outcomes for themselves, their families, and their communities done postsecondary education,” said Marshall Grigsby, Strada trustee and erstwhile HBCU president, provost, and module member. “Black colleges person a profound, affirmative power successful communities, for alumni, and students who, successful turn, person the imaginable to marque a affirmative quality successful our society. We anticipation to grow this enactment with an adjacent broader cohort of institutions successful years to come.”

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To larn much astir the program, sojourn https://stradaeducation.org/hbcu-partners/.

CBS Baltimore Staff