GRAMMY-winning rapper and music mogul Jay-Z has announced his Shawn Carter Foundation is joining forces with Toyota to provide free bus tours to help students visit historically black colleges and universities
The annual tour, which has been operating since 2007, will take high school students from 125 invited schools in the New York and New Jersey area on a week-long trip to visit 11 HBCUs around the country. The tour includes stops in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta and will give students the opportunity to meet with college admissions counselors as well as students invovled with the Shawn Carter Foundation at each school. Fittingly, all high school seniors selected for the tour have been provisionally accepted to at least one college or university on the tour schedule.
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The foundation will facilitate college preparation workshops at the 125 participate in weekend sessions that focus on, "ACT/SAT prep, college essay and academic resume building, interview skills, and how to dress for success," according to Black Enterprise.
Since its inception in 2003, when Jay-Z and his mother Gloria Carter founded the organization, the Shawn Carter Foundation has touched the lives of hundreds of high school students, helping them prepare with the tools - and in some cases, the finances - for a successful transition into college. During their celebrated On The Run II tour last year, Jay-Z and Beyoncé donated over $1 million in scholarship funds, with a $100,000 scholarship being awarded to one exceptional high school senior during each of the tour’s U.S. stops.
For more information on the Shawn Carter Foundation, visit the organization's website.
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