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BISA's Scholarship Program

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For the past 24 years, BISA has been operating a successful scholarship program targeted for inner-city and financially needy young black high school women to attend colleges and universities across America. First criterion for selection is financial need, second, they demonstrate potential for academic growth and leadership and third, they are able to provide some clues about their career goals. BISA's scholarship assistance [program is clearly targeted for disenfranchised and economically disadvantaged young black women. Many of our young scholars (age 17 to 20 years old) are already parents.

BISA's supportive services (hands-on-approach) are provided for each student over the entire two or four years of undergraduate study. These Services include: financial support, books, transportation, tutoring, mentoring, counseling (students and parents), networking among distinguished black women, on-site-visits, BISA's books and calendars of distinguished black women, and monthly contacts by assigned BISA member. Each student is provided a (1) 800 number for easy access to BISA.

In 1995, BISA joined the Combined Federal Campaign and expanded its scholarship program to serve residents by initiating resident-partnership programs on campuses at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

BISA currently administers a $190,000 National Scholarship Program that helps to support 40 to 50 eligible students over a four-year time span. Students of the Washington, DC area are enrolled in the following colleges and universities: University of Maryland (Eastern Shore), Johnson C. Smith, Drexel, North Carolina Central, College of Wooster, St. Mary's College, George Washington University, Delaware State, and North Carolina Wesleyan College.


Students of the following states are enrolled in partnership colleges and universities as listed:

State

Colleges/Universities

Alabama Bishop State Community College, Mobile
Arkansas Philander Smith College, Little Rock
Delaware Delaware State University, Dover
Florida Bethune-Cookman, Daytona Beach
Georgia Morris Brown College, Atlanta
Illinois Chicago State University, Chicago
Louisiana Grambling State University, Grambling
Maryland Morgan State University, Baltimore
Mississippi Tougaloo College, Tougaloo
North Carolina Bennett College, Greensboro
New York Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn
Pennsylvania Lincoln University, Lincoln
Tennessee Fisk University, Nashville
Texas Texas Southern University, Houston
Virginia Hampton University, Hampton


BISA continues to develop and implement the national scholarship program for financially needy and inner-city young black women. To ensure that supportive services are seamless, each of the college presidents at the partnership institutions has assigned a liaison to be a contact for BISA's students. The liaisons update BISA about progress, grades, and participate in an annual teleconference addressing each student. A BISA member is also assigned to each student. These services are free to the students. BISA's literature is also provided free to college liaisons, libraries, presidents, and distinguished women.