LARGEST MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

college-age population and workforce, get the college education they are obviously capable of earning. UNCF is grateful to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the program 9s funder, for its investment in minority students and the country 9s future. d cThe Gates Millennium Scholars Program is educating the nation 9s next generation of leaders, d said Margot Tyler, senior program officer at the Gates Foundation. cIt is a national imperative to double the number of students graduating from American colleges.<br><br> The GMS model, providing students with both financial assistance and academic and leadership mentoring and support, has proven to be an effective way to meet that challenge. d The 1,000 students, who were notified April 15 that they had been selected Gates Millennium Scholars, are from 48 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam and are enrolling for the fall semester in 346 colleges and universities. # # # __________________________________________________________________ UNCF 4the United Negro College Fund 4administers the Gates Millennium Scholars Program. UNCF has partnered with the American Indian Graduate Center Scholars (AIGCS), the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) to serve Gates Millennium Scholars in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S.<br><br> Virgin Islands.

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