Press Release
Contact: Dianne Valentin
Phone: (404) 431-9593
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9 A.M. EST, February 17, 2012
THE BLACK HERITAGE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER, INC. PRESENTS THE 2012 COLLEGE ROUND-UP ON MARCH 10, 2012
TARBORO, NC, FEBRUARY 17, 2012: The Black Heritage Museum & Cultural Center, Inc. (BHMACC) will be presenting its annual College Round-Up event on the Tarboro Campus of Edgecombe Community College located at 2009 West Wilson Street, Tarboro, NC 27886. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, March 10, 2012 from 8:00 am early registration until 3:00 pm. Colleges and Universities will be interviewing students and accepting applications, (application fees waived at the event only). Break-out sessions and workshops on everything from Financial Aid to Self Esteem will be going on simultaneously. Guest speakers during the morning program this year are North Carolina State Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield and New York Judge, the Honorable Betty Staton. Judge Staton is originally from rural Edgecombe County in North Carolina. The morning program begins at 9:00 am.
The College Round-Up was founded by Robert “Bobby” Whitehead and his family in the late 1990s and became a program of the Black Heritage Museum & Cultural Center, Inc. in 2006. It has gone from a small gathering of several hundred coming together in the Tarboro High School gymnasium to well over a thousand in attendance each year since 2008. The College Round-Up was started to give students access to colleges and universities that were willing to take a holistic look at them and give them a chance. More often than not, they were students who had been marginalized in one way or another. Students who felt that they dare not hope for the possibility, and would never have the opportunity to fulfill their dreams of a college education. The College Round-Up program has helped close to 2,000 students realize that dream since 2006. If you are a student, have a student, or know a student interested in college, we’ll see you at the College Round-Up!
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THE BLACK HERITAGE
MUSEUM & CULTURAL
CENTER, INC.
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