Release date: Aug. 17, 2005
Contact: Elaine Justice at 404-727-0643 or elaine.justice@emory.edu

Emory Student Named Rockefeller Brothers Fund 2005 Minority Teaching Fellow

Emory undergraduate Rachel Cooper has been named a recipient of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's 2005 Fellowships for Students of Color Entering the Teaching Profession. A senior majoring in history, she will receive up to $22,100 over a five-year period that begins this summer and ends after completion of three years of public school teaching.

Currently, only 10 percent of the roughly 3 million teachers are minorities and among students almost 40 percent are minorities.

“With the number of teachers of color declining, we want to continue playing a role in encouraging and assisting students of color to become teachers in the public schools,” says Stephen B. Heintz, Rockefeller Brothers Fund president. “Our fellowships give outstanding students such as these an opportunity to be education leaders.”

For more information, go to http://www.rbf.org/news/2005%20Fellows%20release.pdf

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