FAMU one of 28 HBCUs to join in ambitious initiative to help connect students to their aspirations

FAMU is one of twenty-eight historically Black colleges and universities that will benefit from an ambitious partnership with Strada Education Network, to "scale experiential learning and leadership development" across their campuses and help students prepare for future careers and achieve economic success.

This initiative is supported through a $25 million grant from Strada, the initiative reflects a year-long collaboration designed to listen, learn from, and support the work of HBCUs in developing the next generation of leaders.

 

As a part of the partnership, FAMU will select three students every year for four years -- a total of 12 students over the course of the initiative -- to serve as Strada Scholars. Each scholar will receive a $7,000 annual tuition scholarship, FAMU will receive a certain amount of funds per student -- $1,200 to offer internship supports and $1,200 to offer leadership-development resources, at the universities discretion.

 

“It is our goal to expand this work with an even broader cohort of institutions in years to come,” Marshall Grigsby, Strada trustee and co-chair of the advisory council, said in a press release.

 

Rather than establishing a new program, the initiative was designed to augment existing programs on HBCU campuses by providing experiences that marry a student’s academic learning with career goals and leadership aspirations.