WMU Giving Staff Wearing Swag
Madison Greathouse, Assistant Director of Leadership Gifts and Brain Plum, Director of Charitable Giving, wearing scholarship swag from our website purchased in October!
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2024 Scholarship Recipient
Today, we would like to share with you the story of Juanita Black, a 69 year old receipent of the Fatima Plater Scholarship for 2024-25, a graduate student at Wayne State University, where I attended graduate school. Her cancer journey began 10 years ago (not over) and led her from a career in civil engineering to graduate school pursuing a Master’s degree in exercise and sports science at WSU College of Education with the aspiration of becoming a clinical exercise physiologist. Juanita says,”It’s my full intention to demonstrate that cancer can’t win.That’s why I call it “can’tcer.” I don’t say can because I don’t give it permission to win.”
2024 Scholarship Recipients
It is with great pleasure that we announce the two recipients of the 2024-2025 Fatima Plater Scholarships at Western Michigan University, where I attended the College of Education as an undergraduate. The recepients are Sabrina King of Grand Blanc, MI, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Delta Chi Chapter, who is majoring in Political Science with a minor in African American History and plans on teaching and becoming a prosecutor. The second receipent is Zoey Kane from Sturgis, MI, who is majoring in education and plans on teaching elementary education and also teaching in a special education resource room. Go Broncos!
WSU Scholarship Awards Reception
This afternoon, Fatima Plater and Mary Feazell attended Wayne State University’s College of Education’s 2024-2025 Scholarship Awards Reception at their Student Center Ballroom. The College of Education Dean, Denise Taiaferro Baszile, thanked all donors and celebrated over $885,000 in scholarship awards for the College of Education students.
2023 Scholarship Recipient
Tori’Ana Jackson, a Saginaw, MI native, is a senior at Western Michigan University and was initiated Spring 2021 into the Delta Chi chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. With a double major in Nursing and Health Services and Sciences, following graduation Tori’Ana plans to become a pediatric or wound care nurse. While focusing on her studies she has taken on leadership within the sorority as current chapter president, holding former positions such as membership chair and financial secretary, along with being a 2022 Undergraduate Roundup coordinator for the Great Lakes Region.
2023 WSU Scholarship Awards
Congratulations!
2022 Winners
Kyle Chung-$1,900
Kyle is an undergraduate student with a major in Kinesiology with a concentration in exercise and sport science. GPA of 3.0 and as of last spring he had completed 96 credit hours.
Syed Haque-$1,250
Syed is an undergraduate student with a major in Kinesiology with a strong interest in teaching and in an urban setting. GPA of 3.27 and as of last spring he had completed 98 credit hours.
2023 Winner
Tami Willoughby-Burrell-$1,028
Tami is a graduate student in the Masters’ program with a major in Elementary Education with a strong interest in teaching for Detroit Public Schools. GPA of 2.97 and of last spring 13 credit hours completed.
First Fundraising Event
Terry Whitfield, ran 26.2 miles from Corktown today, running past the Detroit Riverfront, around Belle Isle and back to Corktown. The goal is to raise money for Detroit students, teachers and the Fatima Plater Scholarship Fund.The scholarship fund is for students in the College of Education at Wayne State University and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority members at Western Michigan University. Here are some pictures from the event.
