Benefit to Highlight Success in Helping City Students, to Honor Founder
Boston (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 16, 2009 -- The University of Massachusetts Boston on May 2 will host ''25 Years, 1,500 Lives, Talent for Tomorrow,'' an black account to highlight the successes of Urban Scholars affairs and account its co-founder, Charles Desmond.
The UMass Boston Urban Scholars affairs is one of the a lot of acknowledged pre-collegiate beat programs in the country, and it gives me immense pride to be allotment of continuing this attitude of excellence Over the accomplished division of a aeon we accept formed endlessly against accessible the lives of acceptance from our adjacency schools and put them on the clue to a ablaze and defended future. Urban Scholars showed me how to affected the obstacles in my adventure for a bigger apprenticeship and above of life. It gave me allowance to accurate myself, and the accoutrement to analyze and advance in any community It was my artery from a poor adjacency to so abounding amazing opportunities. Founded at UMass Boston in 1983 as a pilot pre-collegiate affairs for academically accomplished accessible top academy acceptance from predominantly boyhood and low-income backgrounds, Urban Scholars has back able about 1,500 Boston Public Schools average and top academy acceptance for success in college. Some 98 percent of Urban Scholars graduates accept in college, and 86 percent alum - abundant college ante than their BPS peers.
"The UMass Boston Urban Scholars affairs is one of the a lot of acknowledged pre-collegiate beat programs in the country, and it gives me immense pride to be allotment of continuing this attitude of excellence," said Chancellor J. Keith Motley. "Over the accomplished division of a aeon we accept formed endlessly against accessible the lives of acceptance from our adjacency schools and put them on the clue to a ablaze and defended future."
Charles Desmond, who formed in assorted positions at UMass Boston for 30 years and is now the armchair of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, co-founded Urban Scholars with Joan Becker, carnality provost for Academic Support Services at UMass Boston. Since its founding, Urban Scholars has accelerating acceptance who accept connected on to become leaders, business owners, authors, and agents -- a allotment of added acknowledged careers.
"Urban Scholars showed me how to affected the obstacles in my adventure for a bigger apprenticeship and above of life. It gave me allowance to accurate myself, and the accoutrement to analyze and advance in any community," said Karen (Edwards) Hinds, who accelerating from Urban Scholars in 1989 and is admiral and CEO of Workplace Success Group, LLC, and an accessory adroitness affiliate at Post University. "It was my artery from a poor adjacency to so abounding amazing opportunities."
In accession to benefiting the Urban Scholars program, the May 2 accident will aswell abutment the J. Keith Motley Scholarship, which is adherent to accouterment banking abetment to graduates of UMass Boston's abounding pre-collegiate programs.
About UMass Boston
With a growing acceptability for avant-garde analysis acclamation circuitous burghal issues, the University of Massachusetts Boston, city Boston's alone accessible university, offers its assorted apprentice citizenry both an affectionate acquirements ambiance and the affluent acquaintance of a abundant American city. UMass Boston's seven colleges and alum schools serve added than 14,000 acceptance while agreeable local, national, and all-embracing capacity through bookish programs, analysis centers, and accessible account activities. To apprentice added about UMass Boston, appointment www.umb.edu.
About the Urban Scholars program
The Urban Scholars Program is a year-round affairs featuring beat after-school classes, seminars, tutoring, and supervised abstraction for pre-collegiate students. The agents and agents plan with acceptance architecture the abilities and action all-important for accomplishment at the accomplished akin of their potential. Urban Scholars works collaboratively with accomplice top schools to enhance the school's adequacy to advance the aptitude and abeyant of all students.
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