Essence Magazine:
By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 16, 2024
Following the end of affirmative action, Duke University will discontinue its Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, a program for top Black applicants.
The Reggie Howard Scholarship program was founded in 1979 to honor the memory of Duke University’s first Black student government president, reports The DukeChronicle. To qualify, applicants had to demonstrate financial need. The scholarship was awarded to 15 to 20 Black undergraduate students
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