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EIP and ACPS secure multi-year grant to increase enrollment

Grant allows Mason’s Early Identification program to provide more opportunities to public school students

“… a three-year grant totaling $130,000 from the Alexandria Fund for Human Services will allow EIP to accept anywhere from 40 to 60 additional students from Alexandria City public schools, in addition to the 10 to 15 students from the city already expected to join the program aimed at better preparing first-generation college students.”

– John Hollis

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The Roques: A Family of EIP & Mason Graduates

 

With Six Siblings Helped by EIP, You Get a Family of Graduates

“Before [her older siblings enrolled in EIP], there wasn’t very much talk about college,” Rosa Roque said. “[EIP] made [college] an achievable goal for them. They started to see themselves coming to college and having that experience. I feel like without the direction the program gave, it would have been a lot harder for us to find ourselves on that path.”

– John Hollis

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Doreen Jospeh, A budding cyber security expert

Secure in the Knowledge that Helping Others Is Her Mission

EIP Alumna, Doreen Joseph, “a 3.98 GPA student from the Honors College, was named Mason’s Black Scholar of the Year, was a Truman Scholarship finalist, and received Honorable Mention honors for the Goldwater Scholarship that’s reserved for the nation’s top STEM students”

– John Hollis

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Graduation gown of EIP Alumna and Program Coordinator on display at Museum

The Anacostia Community Museum proves regular folks can be just as interesting as famous ones

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” On display: The 2016 GMU graduation gown of undocumented immigrant Mirella Saldaña Moreno. “

– Sadie Dingfelder