Harrison College Announces Center for Leadership Development Scholarship Program
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Quotes: “Harrison College is pleased to cooperate with the Center for Leadership Development to receive and review applicants for our new scholarship program,” said Konesco.“We will offer these scholarship recipients a variety of learning environments including online, traditional classroom or a combination of both, and prepare them for success in their chosen profession.” “Through the commitment of Harrison College to award this fabulous scholarship to a CLD alum, Harrison has taken a significant step in helping CLD advance its important mission of empowering African-American youth of Central Indiana to realize the highest levels of academic, college and career achievement,” said Dennis E. Bland, president of the Center for Leadership Development.Each school year, starting with the 2012 year, Harrison College will award one full scholarship (approximately $50,000) to an alumnus of the Center for Leadership Development program, which was established in 1977 after Indianapolis community leaders identified several reasons why African-American youth were failing to achieve or even aspiring to achieve academic, college or career success.“We will offer these scholarship recipients a variety of learning environments including online, traditional classroom or a combination of both, and prepare them for success in their chosen profession.”“Through the commitment of Harrison College to award this fabulous scholarship to a CLD alum, Harrison has taken a significant step in helping CLD advance its important mission of empowering African-American youth of Central Indiana to realize the highest levels of academic, college and career achievement,” said Dennis E. Bland, president of the Center for Leadership Development.The student will be required to maintain a current term GPA of 3.0.About Harrison College:Harrison College is a contemporary, career-focused institution of higher education serving more than 6,000 students throughout the United States and internationally, with 12 campuses in Indiana and Ohio, a culinary school in Indiana and one in North Carolina, and courses online at Harrison.edu.