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United Church of Christ group -
Placing inner-city students in United States colleges
Placing inner-city students in United States colleges
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The United Church of Christ group, based in Columbus, Ohio, has been working through the Grace and Staff Community Development homework programme, to help students from mostly inner-city communities to earn a tertiary education.
All eight have earned at least a postgraduate degree, head of the group, Heather Biggers, told The Gleaner, and this summer they are working to help 24 other students get into colleges in the U.S.
Some of those eight students are working on doctoral degrees in areas such as physics, while others are doing postgraduate degrees in dentistry, accounting and another law.
For Heather, the whole experience with these youths started one summer while vacationing on the north coast . . .
All eight have earned at least a postgraduate degree, head of the group, Heather Biggers, told The Gleaner, and this summer they are working to help 24 other students get into colleges in the U.S.
Some of those eight students are working on doctoral degrees in areas such as physics, while others are doing postgraduate degrees in dentistry, accounting and another law.
For Heather, the whole experience with these youths started one summer while vacationing on the north coast . . .
Source: The Gleaner
Gareth Manning
May 18, 2006
Gareth Manning
May 18, 2006
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Ronesha Rhoden
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"It's All About Me"
2007
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Sanjay Buchanan
Sanjay is a new student to the Progam, who has his manifesto to success planed to the 'T'. He is supportive of teamwork, positive thinking and the satisfaction of knowing when one have put their best effort forward. . .
The Mentorship Program
From the above it seems that the CATALYST Administrators are in Jamaica for only a couple of weeks. So, how can they know the students on a personal level, so that they can help them to the full extent that they want to? Sure, they can email them. And there are Grace & Staff employees and Mr. Curtis Sweeney - Counsellor, but Ms. Biggers thought that these were not enough. Thus, the Mentorship Program was initiated. In the Program, each student is assigned with a mentor - a employee throughout GraceKennedy Group of Companies. This initiative was so successful that Grace & Staff employees adopted this idea for all their students. And a manual was prepared by Curtis Sweeney.