{"id":8857,"date":"2022-09-09T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2022-09-09T14:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:51:04","slug":"nicholls-state-university-participates-in-the-reginald-f-lewis-scholars-program-for-the-second-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/09\/nicholls-state-university-participates-in-the-reginald-f-lewis-scholars-program-for-the-second-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ participates in the Reginald F. Lewis Scholars Program for the second year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIBODAUX, La. — ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ is participating in the Reginald F. Lewis Scholars program for the second year in a row along with the eight other University of Louisiana System member institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reginald F. Lewis Scholars is a cohort program designed to enhance the collegiate experience of black males across the UL System. The program recruits black male students and provides educational programs, mentoring opportunities and co-curricular experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each cohort will comprise two students chosen from each University of Louisiana System member institution for a total of 18 new members each year. Currently, the program has 35 students. Next year will add another 18 in the program bringing the total number of scholars to 53. Each year subsequent, the program should maintain 54 members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Representing ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ in Cohort 2 of the Reginald F. Lewis Scholars are sophomores Deon Charles and Charleston Rainey, and returning to the program to represent Cohort 1 are juniors John Edmonds and Lance Jones. ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ created a committee to review all freshman males who met the criteria for the program, encouraged those students to apply, reviewed applications, performed an interview process and identified the scholars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The goals of the program are to:<\/span><\/p>\n