EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Jan. 24, 2023) – The Heart for Accounting Variety at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State College has awarded 2022-23 HBCU Graduate Accounting Fellowships to fifteen students who’re persevering with their graduate accounting schooling.
Every scholar obtained $15,000 for tuition and Uniform Licensed Public Accountant (CPA) Examination preparation and costs. The Affiliation of Worldwide Licensed Skilled Accountants (AICPA) Basis gives monetary help for the fellowship.
“Funding for graduate accounting schooling is significant and crucial to cut back the limitations to entry to the accounting occupation,” stated Kecia Williams Smith, CPA, Ph.D., Heart for Accounting Variety director. “These funds not solely allow college students to finish their superior schooling however may also present the monetary help to organize for and sit for the Uniform CPA Examination.”
HBCU Graduate Accounting Fellowships had been awarded based mostly on functions reviewed by committee representatives from every of the 4 taking part traditionally Black schools or universities (HBCUs): N.C. A&T, Howard College, Jackson State College and Prairie View A&M College.
The Fellows are Tiara Addison-Vick, Arnold Awudza, Nyla Jones and Liana Moyo of A&T; Ja’Brekia Bass and Devin Freeman of Howard; Nicolas Donelson, Jayda Grissett, Courtney Logan, Doshua McCray, Julia McWilliams, Taylor Morgan, Aaron Ridley and Jordan Wesley of Jackson State; and Ravyn Maycock of Prairie View.
The Heart for Accounting Variety gives a holistic strategy to addressing the systemic limitations of entry to the accounting occupation via revolutionary programming in accounting range analysis, scholar recruitment, and school {and professional} sources.
The AICPA Basis was established in 1922 to advance accounting as a discovered occupation and promote its future via accounting schooling and outreach; scholarships and fellowships; and variety and inclusion.
