Atlanta students got the college experience this summer
Nearly 300 Atlanta students were exposed to the rigors and realities of college life by participating in the city school district’s Project GRAD Summer Institute.
The students attended classes at one of seven local universities as they worked to complete requirements for earning a Brumley-GRAD scholarship upon high school graduation.
Participating universities included Metropolitan State College, Emory, Georgia State and Morehouse.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
