Lane College News Lane Student Selected To Participate in International Forum Jonathan Freeman, a junior and UNCF/Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (UNCF/MMUF), has been selected to participate in the University of Cape Town January Institute in South Africa. As such, he and other Fellows will travel to Cape Town on January 2, 2011 and spend 10 days immersing themselves in the examination of special readings penned by leading world-scholars of the day. This Institute will serve as a component toward the Fellows achieving their ultimate goals of obtaining Ph.Ds in core fields in the Arts and Sciences. Freeman, a History major with a 3.8 grade point average, is a native of Greenville, Mississippi and is the son of Julius and Carole Woodard. The fundamental objective of the UNCF/MMUF Program is to increase the number of minority students, and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities in higher education. The program aims to reduce over time the historic under-representation on faculties of individuals from certain minority groups (African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans), as well as to address the attendant educational consequences of these disparities. It further serves the related goals of structuring campus environments so that they will be more conducive to improved racial and ethnic relations, and of providing role models for all youth. The Program aims to achieve its mission by identifying and supporting students of great promise and helping them to become scholars of the highest distinction. The UNCF is the nation's largest and most effective minority scholarship organization. To serve youth, the community, and the nation, UNCF supports more than 60,000 students at over 900 colleges and universities across the country. UNCF supports education through scholarships and other programs, and by advocating for the importance of minority education. UNCF administers more than 400 programs, including scholarship, internship and fellowship, mentoring, summer enrichment, and curriculum and faculty development programs. Today, 60 percent of students supported by the UNCF are the first in their families to attend college; 62 percent are from families with annual income of less than $25,000; and 93 percent qualify for financial aid. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org www.hbculibraries.org 404.592.4820 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org Honor the ancestors, honor the children.