2007 Jerome Holland and Sonja Hoel Perkins Scholars have been selected.
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Jerome Holland Scholar Selection Weekend 2007

The 2007 Jerome Holland Selection Weekend is being held at the University of Virginia beginning on the evening of Thursday March 22nd. read more

Sonja Hoel Perkins Scholarship

Ms. Hoel grew up in Charlottesville, graduating from Albemarle High School, so she was keenly interested in ensuring that the scholarship aid area high school students. And as the daughter of Lester A. Hoel, the L. A. Lacy Distinguished Professor of Engineering in U. Va.’s Department of Civil Engineering, she is a committed believer in the value of higher education. “My father grew up in Brooklyn and was offered a free education through scholarships at very good schools such as the City College of New York, and later Berkeley,” she says. “Now he’s a senior faculty member at U. Va. And he was able to go to school because he received help.” read more

Ron Brown Scholar Program Published Book in 2006

I Have Risen: Essays by African American Youth

To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the death of the lat Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown and to draw attention to the extraordinary scholars (members of the Ron Brown Scholars Program, a part of the CAP Charitable Program along with the Jerome Holland Program) who are following his example and choosing to make a difference in the world, the CAP Charitable Foundation, Ron Brown Scholar Program, released its first book, I Have Risen: Essays by by African-American Youth. The coffee table book features essays written by a number of its scholarship recipients and showcases powerful stories and reflections of young African American scholars. Far from being a simple compilation of success stories, the book gives a glimpse into the hears, passions and minds of a group of young people who, separately and together, promise to rock the world. Read more at the Ron Brown website.