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Citibank Grant Supports Dowling College's Minority Teacher Development Center
From left, Dr. Clyde I. Payne, Associate Provost of Dowling College's School of Education, Kimberly Carros, Business Banking Officer at Bayport Citibank, Tina Heredia, Financial Center Manager at Sunvet Citibank, Lizette Washington, Director of the Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training, and Michael DeLuise, Vice President of Development & External Relations at Dowling College.
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Dowling College has received a $2,000 grant from Citibank to support programs offered at the Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training, which operates at the College's Oakdale and Brookhaven campuses.
"We are pleased to lend support to the valuable initiatives of Dowling College's Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training," commented Tina Heredia, Financial Center Manager from Sunvet Citibank. "As an involved member of the Long Island community, we realize the crucial work being done by the Center, which strengthens all of Long Island by educating many promising young students."
The Center is led by Program Director Lizette M. Washington and is dedicated exclusively to attracting minority students from disadvantaged circumstances to become teachers in under-served local school districts. It operates in partnership with The Urban League of Long Island, Inc., Adelante of Suffolk County, Inc. and other organizations, which work locally in under-served school districts to identify potential students for the program.
Among the goals of this initiative is to increase the current rate of minority graduates receiving a bachelor's degree in Education; reduce the dropout rate of minority students; and to educate, train and recruit more minorities into the teaching field.
Dowling College provides the teacher training aspects of the program for the periods both before and after the student's entry into college. The College also assists in fund raising and administration. The Urban League of Long Island, Inc. and Adelante of Suffolk County, Inc. lend their expertise and reputation to the fund raising, to the selection of districts with which to work, to the identification of candidates for the program, and to provide counselors for the students.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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