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Dowling College Receives $10,000 Verizon Foundation Grant Funds Support Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training
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| The Verizon Foundation recently presented Dowling College's Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training a $10,000 grant. Pictured from left are: Dr. Clyde Payne, Dean of Dowling's School of Education, Dr. Albert E. Donor, President of Dowling, Janet F. Jones, Verizon's Director of Community Affairs for Long Island, Dr. Kevin Jordan, Assistant Director of Dowling's Higher Education Opportunity Program, and Lizette Washington, Director of the Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training. |
The Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training (CMTDT) at Dowling College has received a $10,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to support activities during the Center's third year of operation at the College's Oakdale and Brookhaven campuses.
"We were excited about the continued success of the students in Dowling's Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training during that past few years. Verizon is pleased we can help young people across Long Island become teachers," commented Janet F. Jones, Verizon's Director of Community Affairs for Long Island. Verizon has provided a total of $40,000 in support since the Center was founded in 2003.
The CMTDT 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., and other organizations, which work locally in under-served school districts to identify potential students for the program.
"Support from the Verizon Foundation is essential to expanding our outreach into Long Island's schools," said Lizette M. Washington, Director of the CMTDT. "Each dollar we receive supports the education of young teachers and touches each young child that will learn from that teacher. It is a powerful chain that Verizon keeps strong."
Among the goals of the CMTDT is to increase the current rate of minority graduates receiving a degree in Education; reduce the dropout rate of minority students; and to educate, train and recruit more minorities into teaching of early primary grades of the public school systems on Long Island and elsewhere.
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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