Fisk University News November 8, 2021 Fisk Student Named Rhodes Scholarship Finalist For the third consecutive year, Fisk University has produced a Rhodes Scholarship finalist nationwide. Saraya Ashley, a senior political science major and Student Government President, was invited in November of 2021 to interview for what is widely considered the most prestigious academic scholarship available worldwide. Ms. Ashley is the fourth Fisk student to make it to the Rhodes Scholarships finals in the last 3 years. This year, Ms. Saraya Ashley became the second African-American woman from Fisk University to make it to the Rhodes Scholarship finals. Each year, across the nation nearly two thousand university students apply at the campus level and eventually approximately 190 college seniors/recent graduates are interviewed for the scholarship. The prize provides two to three years of fully-funded graduate study at the historic University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The highly competitive scholarship boasts that the standard grade point average of its winners, historically, is a 3.9. The Fisk community has enthusiastically applauded Saraya Ashley's efforts and her progress. Sandra M. Phoenix, Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance 678-210-5801 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> Seek justice, honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/