Pace High students win Posse grants
Education
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Monsignor Edward Pace High School seniors Qiana Pierre and David Barbier Jr. were selected as the first-ever Posse Scholar Foundation recipients from the school.
The two students received fully paid academic scholarships for all four years in college.
Pierre will be attending Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, while Barbier is headed to Syracuse University in New York.
The Posse Scholar Foundation partners with college and universities and award scholarships to students each year.
The Posse Program recruits students from cities across the nation including Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York.
Since 1989, the Posse Scholarship Foundation’s partnerships with colleges and universities have awarded $1.2 billion in scholarships to students.