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Community Development Newsletter
Volume VI
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Number 4
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Educational Talent Search
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A Fulmer Middle School student during a recent ETS session. |
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Educational Talent Search (ETS) grant is scheduled to end in August 2007, but the staff is working energetically to meet the requirements of the grant which include students to be served twice. Some of the services ETS provides are: Parents of College Bound Students, How to Get Money for College, Your Future: Preparing for An Education Beyond High School and Funding Your Education. ETS current staff includes: Vivian Bush, Database Specialist; Waijbe Altimar, Curriculum Specialist; Tracy Myers, Administrative Assistant. At the close of the school year, ETS has served 656 students enrolled in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades at Fulmer, EL Wright, Crayton, and Hopkins middle schools; one high school, Dutch Fork, which includes grades ninth through twelfth.
With the summer approaching and the program coming to a close, ETS will be preparing college tours and summer sessions presented by the Girl Scouts of America. During the month of July, selected students will be given an extensive college tour of Benedict College, followed by lunch at Lake Murray.
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 Dr. Hopkins presenting at the University of Technology at Choco |
 (left to right: Giancarlo, Dr. Boutte, Ana, Rubien, Dr. Hopkins) --visiting the mall in Bogota, Colombia. Ana and Rubien will matriculate at Benedict College. |
The CEEEAAS Program In South America
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| Dr. Gloria Swindler Boutte, Principal Investigator of CEEEAAS, and Dr. Ronnie Hopkins, Dean of the School of Continuing Education, presented two papers at the University of Technology at Choco in Colombia, South America on May 24. The papers presented were: 1) Hip Hop Cultural Connections Around the World: Critical Explorations for the Classroom; 2) Teaching Standard English Proficiency to African American Language Speakers. During the visit to Colombia, (May 19-June 5), Dr. Boutte and Dr. Hopkins also had the opportunity to meet with administrators, faculty, and students. The University of Technology enrolls approximately 7,500 students and is the only Black institution of higher education in Colombia. Benedict College and University of Technology at Choco have a collaborative agreement that is coordinated by Dr. Norma Jackson, Director of International Programs at Benedict College. |
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