Scholarship Program for African-Americans

The Ron Brown Scholar program is a national program designed to empower and assist a host of African-American high school students who have shown a need financially but has a propensity for the continuous improvement of both their social and academic skills. The principal, Ron H. Brown, was the first African-American appointed to the Cabinet post of US Secretary of Commerce. He was a big advocate of American business locally as well as abroad. He flew frequently to other countries to spread and cultivate opportunities in the marketing of American products. He died in a plane crash on 1996. The program annually provides $40,000 each to twenty (20) highly remarkable African-American high school seniors bearing no say to whatever kind of discipline or which school the chosen students would like to go into. The Ron Brown Scholar Program differs from other scholarship programs not only in terms of the selection criteria, but in offering its scholars a sort of pride and belongingness in a community of talented and academically inclined individuals who champions the development and improvement of the quality of the lives of countless African-American people. Since the Rob Brown scholarship program seeks to determine African-American high school seniors who will later move on to make considerable contributions to society, candidates should exhibit academic excellence, social accountability, has high leadership potential and must demonstrate financial need. Applicants need to be a resident of the United States or must hold a permanent resident visa, and existing college students are no longer eligible for application. Scholarships will be awarded in the basis of submitted applications, interviews and the applicants' participation during the Selection Weekend activities determined by the Rob Brown Scholarship program team. Scholars can use the Rob Brown scholarship aid to add to other benefits a particular student is about to receive from other foundations, organizations, or university or college that he or she is supposed to go into. Grant awardees can either use the money they'll be getting to buy books, computers and other miscellaneous studying expenses, or they can use it to cover tuition fees, laboratory, room and board, health insurance etc. They may also place a request if they want to use everything or just a portion of the grant to subsidize their undergraduate studies or have it deferred for graduate studies in the later years.