Delaware College Scholars’ board of directors has elected Katherine “Katie” Wilkinson as its new board president. Katie succeeds Paul Harrell, who will remain on the board of directors.
Dr. Tony Alleyne, the Founder and Executive Director of the Delaware College Scholars Program, was honored with the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) Recent Alumni Award.
As Delaware’s top decision makers work to balance a state budget that has an almost $400 million deficit, one thing is clear – funding reductions are happening and government agencies, nonprofits and businesses alike are going to share in the sacrifice.
In a setting as idyllic as it is prestigious, a small group of Delaware students is submerging itself in a new world this summer, living three weeks at the private boarding school St. Andrew's while preparing to apply for and go to college.
Gov. Jack Markell on Saturday honored the first 35 high school students to complete the Delaware College Scholars program, an initiative preparing teens for college success.
The Delaware College Scholars program helped Middletown senior Brandon Dawson, who will be a first-generation college student when he attends Duke this fall, with the college application process.
St. Andrews School in Middletown, Delaware looks like something out of a postcard--from its stone archways to its Gothic cloisters to the carpets of green grass that checker the more-than 2000 acre campus.