April 15, 2020

The American Indian College Fund Honors First Generation Scholars

Author: Dina Horwedel

The American Indian College Fund was set to honor 36 American Indian first-generation scholarship recipients at its 2020 Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship banquet in Albuquerque, New Mexico in late March during the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Conference. Then COVID-19 struck, causing the event to be cancelled to protect students and their communities. “Knowing that Native students would be faced with even greater challenges to stay in school, the Coca-Cola Foundation