Applause
Staten Island Advance - May 23, 2004
Justice Olagbaiye, of Tottenville received the Dr.
Edison O. Jackson Single Fathers Scholarship Fund during the 10th
annual Dr. Edison O. Jackson Single Fathers Scholarship Awards
Celebration hosted in the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
One of three individuals who were honored with the
scholarship, Olagbaiye received it through the Male Development and
Empowerment Center of the City University’s Medgar Evers College.
It is the first and only scholarship of its kind
established at any public or private institution of higher learning
in the country. Olagbaiye is a sophomore majoring in psychology [at
the College of Staten Island].
The Dr. Edison O. Jackson Single Fathers Scholarship
Fund is named after the current president of Medgar Evers College of
The City University of New York and is open to CUNY undergraduate
students seeking a four-year Baccalaureate Degree, who are not
graduating seniors.
Applicants must be single fathers in financial need
and have a cumulative grade point average of 2.5.
Reprinted here with permission from the
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