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January 24, 2025

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!

October 17, 2024

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 […]

October 5, 2024

2024 Scholarship Recipients

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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 […]

September 30, 2024

WSU Scholarship Awards Reception

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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.

August 12, 2024

2023 Scholarship Recipient

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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 […]