Detroit Housing Commission Launches Educational Excursion
(PRWEB) April 13, 2000
PRESS RELEASE/PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Detroit Housing Commission
1301 E Jefferson
Detroit, MI 48207
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Will Davis, Youth Services Coordinator
Phone: (313)877-8600
Fax: (313) 877-8659
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Detroit, MI, 04/10/00—
On April 17th to April 21st, 39 youth residents of the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) will participate in a four day tour of historic pre-dominantly black colleges and universities. "Black College Tour 2000" will provide public housing and low-income youth with a highly informative experience aimed at increasing their awareness of historic black centers of academia. DHC's Youth services Department staff organized the event to expose it's pre - college and junior college residents to campus life and black college tradition, as well as to encourage them to apply for admission and financial assistance at traditional four-year educational institutions.
DHC will sponsor the educational excursion, including a cost of approxiamtely $500 per student. Participants hail from all DHC family developments.
Black College Tour 2000 will visit such historic and honored institutions, as Fisk University in Nashville, TN; Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia; and Atlanta University Center, which includes Spellman, Moorehouse, and Clark Colleges, in Atlanta, Ga. DHC's Executive Director, John Nelson stated, "This tour will equip potential college candidates with an elevated sense of the college experience, it's history, and how it all works to shape their futures. The opportunity to visit centers of higher education and meet with other students and school representatives, should translate into most if not all of the 39 participants gaining admission to these and other schools."
DHC Black College Tour 2000 participants will meet at 8 am Sunday, April 16th to depart for Coppin and Morgan State Universities in Baltimore, MD. The tour will conclude at Fisk University on April 21st, returning to Detroit late evening on Friday, April 21st.
Selection criteria inlcludes 14 - 19 years of age and current enrollment in high school or community college. In addition, hopeful participants were required to submit a 300 word essay based on the opportunites education affords young people.
For more information, please contact Will Davis, DHC Youth Services Coordinator, at 313- 877-8600.
