Alecia Watt discusses challenges facing minority college students
Watt is the director of educational opportunities at Greenville Tech Share Updated: 6:02 PM EDT Apr 30, 2021 Jane Robelot
Watt is the director of educational opportunities at Greenville Tech Share Updated: 6:02 PM EDT Apr 30, 2021
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Show Transcript THAT’S SOMETHING THAT GREENVILLE TECHNICAL COLLEGE RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT A CERTAIN GROUP OF ITS STUDENTS WAS DEALING WITH AND IT’S ONE EYE-OPENING ISSUE THAT MANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN IN OUR COMMUNITY WRESTLE WITH EVERY DAY IN AN EFFORT TO SUPPORT STUDENTS TECH PRESIDENT DR. KEITH MILLER FORMED THE COMMISSION ON PERSISTENCE AND RETENTION TWO YEARS AGO, DR. ALICIA WATTS SERVED ON THAT COMMISSION. SHE JOINS OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATION WITH SOME OF THE OF THESE FINDINGS WHICH CAN BENEFIT OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY. THAT OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES WERE COMING IN AT THE BOTTOM OF EVERY CATEGORY. THEY WERE AT THE BOT
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Tony Neves, 79, of Cleveland, passed away on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, after suffering several strokes and battling with dementia.
Tony was born on June 5, 1941, to Juanita and Lecel in Greenville, S.C.
After graduating from Greenville High School in 1964, he studied photography at Greenville Tech, Cleveland State Community College and then Lee University, where he took advantage of the senior programs and helped many students in their photography studies. He graduated with his master s in photography in 1989.
In 1955, he met Nancy Martin, and they wed in 1962, going on to have two children: Ronnie Neves, who married Donna Gregg, and Megan Neves, who narried Jody Lischewski. Tony had two beloved granddaughters: Chloe Starshine Mize and Lily Temperance Thomas.
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different changes to programming. charles wilson is on the u.s. labor secretary s advisory committee for apprentices. he started the apprenticeship program at greenville tech after watching south carolina s signature industry, textiles, collapse. sending many manufacturing jobs overseas. when i saw people who had worked in textiles all their life, losing their jobs, i couldn t sleep some nights. i said, what can one person do to help? brabt realizes how lucky he is to have gotten one of the coveted apprenticeships, especially considering south carolina s 11% unemployment rate, one of the highest in the country. tremendous amount of people out of work at the moment, and i know that the competition is high for pretty much any job in the field right now. so there you go. an example of how private companies can work with technical and community colleges. got to tell you, since we first brought you that story, brandt bishop is graduated, working full time for boesch rexroth. the c