Helping Provide Pathways to Success for Underserved and Underprivileged Communities

Equity is an issue in education. Ensuring access to the highest level of education possible for all people, multiple pathways (customized for every kind of learner), and importantly creating learning environments that represent all learners is the fundamental underpinning to our operations, and these are just some of the areas that have been lacking in the education system for far too long.

The Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, reports that while roughly half of students across the country (U.S.A) identify as students of color, less than one in five educators are educators of color. Javaid Siddiqi, President and CEO of The Hunt Institute, states that we need a million teachers nationally to reflect the student bodies they serve. Most shockingly, Michael Sorrel, President of Paul Quinn College, states that forty percent of schools in this country have no teachers of color.

Disparity of equity is historic and still prevalent, whether it be in regards to race, gender, personal beliefs, or financial background. For this reason, our scholarships are given for not only environmental, but also social reasons, to address issues of disparity, whether that means historic or present.

We give scholarships and financial aid, foremost, in response to financial need, as financial disparity, largely, underpins all other forms of disparity. Next, we allocate funds, in terms of current personal socioeconomic conditions, and finally in terms of historic challenges and present data, to address skewed advantages and in order to create a more fair and equitable learning environment of progress, based on merit and true potential, for all.