{"id":67214,"date":"2020-02-13T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&p=67214"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:22:52","slug":"ruth-batson-impact-and-equity-scholarship-fund-to-support-black-latinx-teacher-candidates-entering-bu-wheelock-grad-programs","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2020\/ruth-batson-impact-and-equity-scholarship-fund-to-support-black-latinx-teacher-candidates-entering-bu-wheelock-grad-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Batson Scholarship to Support Black and Latinx Teacher Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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BU Wheelock was the recipient of a $500,000 gift to fund scholarships for Black and Latinx students earning graduate degrees in teacher preparation programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first recipients of awards from the Ruth Batson Impact & Equity Scholarship Fund are members of the fall 2020 entering cohort of BU Wheelock graduate students.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new scholarship fund is named in honor of educator and civil rights advocate Ruth Batson, who through leadership roles with the NAACP and Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, helped push the city of Boston and toward the desegregation of its public schools. Batson earned a master of education degree from Boston University in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The central purpose of the Batson scholarship is to create a more diverse teacher candidate pool by expanding access to the BU Wheelock master\u2019s programs that prepare highly skilled educators, says Maureen Mollahan, BU Wheelock’s assistant dean for development & alumni relations. She says that the donors hope recipients of Ruth Batson Impact & Equity Scholarship Fund awards go on to teach in urban school districts after they complete their studies at BU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe donors have been very involved in supporting and promoting opportunity in education,\u201d says Mollahan. \u201cThey chose to work with us because of our partnership with BPS and our shared commitment to access to graduate education for young educators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to earning her graduate degree from BU, Ruth Batson directed BU\u2019s school desegregation research project from 1975 to 1981. She was the first African American woman to serve on the Democratic National Committee; the first woman elected President of the NAACP\u2019s New England Regional Conference; and helped launch the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), the country\u2019s longest-running school desegregation program, in 1966. Her\u00a0papers are held at the Radcliffe Institute\u2019s Schlesinger Library, at Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe considered a number of educators and leaders, past and present, from Boston when deciding who to name this scholarship for,\u201d explains Mollahan. \u201cWe ultimately chose to honor Ruth Batson because of her career as an educator, her service to the people of Boston, and her connection to Boston University.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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