Omari Scott Simmons

Potential on the Periphery: College Access from the Ground Up

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Profiles the Simmons Memorial Foundation (SMF), a grassroots non-profit organization co-founded by author Omari Scott Simmons, that promotes college access for students in North Carolina and Delaware. Simmons discusses how the organisation has helped students secure admission and succeed in college.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592886
• ISBN-10: 0813592887
• Artikelnr.: 53488347

Autorenporträt

OMARI SCOTT SIMMONS is the Howard L. Oleck Professor of Business Law and the director of the Business Law Program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the co-founder and executive director of the Simmons Memorial Foundation.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Introduction   
1.         Origins
2.         The SMF College Access Program
3.         Challenges in College Access
4.         The Role of SMF Intervention
5.         Reforms
6.         Parting Thoughts
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index