{"id":86297,"date":"2020-10-01T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=86297"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:26:33","slug":"african-diaspora-council-awards-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/african-diaspora-council-awards-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"African Diaspora Council awards scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The African Diaspora Council will present scholarships to nine students at the Black Student Cultural Center\u2019s UWM African\/African American Virtual Connect on Thursday, Oct. 1. The event starts at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The African Diaspora Council (ADC), formerly known as the African American Faculty and Staff Council, started the scholarship program in 2017 to help African American\/Black students finish their college education and try to help close the college-completion gap between Black and white students at UWM.<\/p>\n<p>The African Disapora Council\u2019s faculty and staff members created and funded a scholarship to help UWM graduate more senior status African American\/Black students.\u00a0 From 2017-18 through 2019-20, 10 students received scholarships funded by members and African American alumni contributors. For 2019-20, ADC also received scholarship funding for two more students from a corporate grant.\u00a0 As of May 2020, 11 of the 12 scholars have graduated.<\/p>\n<p>ADC awarded scholarships to nine students for 2020-21. By May 2021, ADC will have provided approximately $38,000 in financial support for 19 graduates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs representatives of UWM, we wanted to demonstrate our commitment to the students we interact with on a daily basis,\u201d said Diana Borders, assistant director of business services in the School of Education. She is co-chair of the African Diaspora Council. Brenda Cullin, office manager in the Department of Economics, is co-chair.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships go to students with a demonstrated financial need who will graduate during the upcoming academic year.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s scholarship winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tanya Edwards<\/li>\n<li>Amiah Hawthorne<\/li>\n<li>Mercy Ndon<\/li>\n<li>Ashlie Purifoy<\/li>\n<li>Amber Thompson<\/li>\n<li>Laetitia Zeba<\/li>\n<li>Ta&#8217;Quan Campbell<\/li>\n<li>Princess Davis<\/li>\n<li>Loren Nelson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Diaspora Council will present scholarships to nine students at the Black Student Cultural Center\u2019s UWM African\/African American Virtual Connect on Thursday, Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,200],"tags":[],"section":[],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[],"class_list":["post-86297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-in-brief"],"uwm_unpublish_requested":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - 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