The Upward Bound program at Southern Arkansas University will be hosting a senior recognition and awards ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Harton Theatre.<\/p>\n
A total of 33 graduates will be recognized, and they represent 11 different high schools from across southwest Arkansas. For U.B. I, Cory Walker from Magnolia High earned valedictorian honors, and Skyler Jones from Magnolia High is the salutatorian.\u00a0 For U.B. II, Morgan Warren from Arkansas High in Texarkana has earned valedictorian honors, and Jasmine King from Blevins High is the salutatorian. The other graduates include:<\/p>\n
Arkansas High:\u00a0 Ebony Mosley, Dominique Price; Blevins High: \u00a0Kristen Pruitt; Bradley High:\u00a0 Jarek Govan;\u00a0 El Dorado High:\u00a0 Rachel Arnold;\u00a0 Emerson High:\u00a0 Leondra Robinson;\u00a0 Hope High: \u00a0Torre\u2019 Greene (U.B. II\u00a0 honor graduate), Alex Washington, and Corinna Weston;\u00a0 Lafayette High:\u00a0 Kandace Jackson and Destiny Wesson; Magnolia High:\u00a0 Jo\u2019Quari Beasley, LeSabre Dansby, Waltdrikus Dunn, Na\u2019Triell Gantt, Camella Garland, Earnessa Hildreth, Aaliyah Rose, Lorinza Rose, (U.B. I honor graduate), TaVarius Strickland, and Desiree\u2019 Williams (U.B. I honor graduate);\u00a0 Nevada High:\u00a0 Kaitlan Malone; Stephens High:\u00a0 Noah Banks, (U.B. I honor graduate), Royalty Green, Carlos Murray, and Charles Washington;\u00a0 Taylor High:\u00a0 Cody Bonner, JoAnna Marsh, and Destiny Wright.<\/p>\n
The guest speaker will be Eunice E. Walker, director of Student Support Services and executive TRiO director at SAU. She has worked at SAU for more than 20. Before working at the collegiate level, she was an English teacher at Bradley High School for nine years.<\/p>\n
Walker is an active member at Trinity Christian Methodist Church in Magnolia, where she is Director of the Board of Christian Education and a member of the Stewardess and Usher Boards. She serves on several boards in her community:\u00a0 Columbia County NAACP, Columbia County Community Foundation, South Arkansas Women\u2019s Network, and Columbia County Youth Advisory Council.\u00a0 In 2006, she received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Columbia County Association of the NAACP.\u00a0 Professionally, she is a member of the Arkansas Association of Student Assistance Programs and the Southwest Association of Student Assistance Programs.<\/p>\n
The SAU Upward Bound program has been in existence for more than 47 years and was one of the first U.B. programs in the nation. It is currently funded to serve 180 southwest Arkansas high school students.<\/p>\n
The program is designed to motivate these students to improve their grades in high school so each can go on to earn a college degree within six years after being admitted into college. This is accomplished by providing cultural and academic activities as well as personal attention.<\/p>\n
Students are eligible to participate if they meet the following criteria: they are entering the 9th<\/sup> grade, but have not completed the 10th<\/sup> grade; are at least 14 years old, but not older than 17; neither parent has earned a four-year college degree; family income represents economic need; and they have potential for success in post-secondary education.<\/p>\n For more information on SAU\u2019s Upward Bound program or on Saturday\u2019s graduation ceremony, please call 870-235-4160 or visit the SAU Upward Bound website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Upward Bound program at Southern Arkansas University will be hosting a senior recognition and awards ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Harton Theatre. A total of 33 graduates will be recognized, and they represent 11 different high schools from across southwest Arkansas. For U.B. I, Cory Walker from Magnolia High… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upward-bound","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}