97-05-06 Young Scholars to Induct 120 on Friday

                        NEWS ADVISORY:
          OHIO STATE INDUCTS NEW CLASS OF YOUNG SCHOLARS

     State Rep. Charleta Tavaris will address the induction
ceremony welcoming 120 sixth-graders from nine Ohio cities,
including Columbus, as the next class to join The Ohio State
University Young Scholars Program Friday (5/2) at 1 p.m. in the
Ohio Union West Ballroom, 1739 N. High St.  The program will
include remarks by Charles Hancock, director of the Young
Scholars Program; LeRoy Pernell, vice provost for minority
affairs; other university officials; and Keith Troy, pastor of
New Salem Missionary Baptist Church.

     The Young Scholars Program gives first generation college-
bound Ohio minority students a college education at little or no
cost to the students. The goal of the program is to increase the
number of underrepresented minority students at the college level
with particular emphasis on African American, Latino American,
Native American, and Appalachian students.

     In 1994, 93 Young Scholars enrolled in Ohio State, 180 in
1995, and 181 Scholars entered in 1996.  Students are chosen in
the sixth grade based on a written essay, grades, and a
standardized test by a committee of educators in their hometowns:
Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Lorain,
Toledo and Youngstown.  After this year’s new class is inducted,
there will be some 1,700 Scholars in the program.

     Young Scholars are guaranteed admission to Ohio State, along
with financial aid, if they successfully complete the program
through high school graduation with a 3.0 grade point average or
better in a college preparatory curriculum.  Middle schoolers
take math classes on Saturday mornings, and high school students
attend two-hour tutoring sessions twice weekly after school. 
These students also attend annual summer institutes on the Ohio
State Campus, where they live in dormitories and attend classes.

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CONTACT: Charles Hancock, Young Scholars Program, 292-4884.


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Tue, 6 May 1997 15:13:38 -0400 (EDT)]
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