DePauw's Posse Participation Noted in Chicago Sun-Times

December 25, 2007

December 25, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - Seventy-two Chicago-area high school seniors are recipients "of a unique scholarship from Chicago's Posse Foundation. The scholarships guarantee a full ride at one of 28 top-tier colleges -- to groups of about 10 students each," reports today's Chicago Sun-Times. "The seven Chicago posses will attend Pomona, Carleton and Oberlin colleges; Denison and DePauw universities; and the universities of Illinois and Wisconsin," adds the newspaper.

""Nationwide, 372 teens in six cities were named Posse scholars," writes Maudlyne Ihejirika in a story that includes comments from Posse Foundation founder Debbie Bial, who will provide the commencement address at DePauw in May. Ihejirika notes, "Each group -- or posse -- is a built-in support system for the teens, the majority of whom are disadvantaged minorities. Seventy-eight percent are black or Latino, and nearly three of four are the first in their family to attend college."

Read the complete text at the Sun-Times' site. Another article is published in the Chicago Tribune.

DePauw has partnered with the Posse Foundation since 1996 and became the first college in the nation to host two Posse groups (from New York and Chicago). Bial and 2007 DePauw graduate Kareem Edwards -- who came to the University as a Posse scholar -- discussed the program last week on New York's WNYC.  A link to audio of the broadcast can accessed via this previous story.

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