FirstGen Flames Ready to See the World Through New Scholarship Program
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Jason Mei taught himself how to juggle this summer, but now he wants to discover other hidden talents while studying in another country.
“I want to see if I have any other eccentric ideas while I study abroad. Without being close to home, it’s all on you to explore and I just want to see if I can uncover something new,” he said.
Mei will have the opportunity to gain new personal, academic and professional insights and skills thanks to a Chancellor’s FirstGen Flames Abroad Scholarship, a new annual program to encourage and support study abroad for first-generation undergraduate students whose parents did not complete a bachelor’s degree.
Mei, a second-year finance major in the College of Business Administration, is one of 11 students named earlier this year to the program’s first cohort. The group recently met for the first time during a special outdoor reception with Chancellor Michael Amiridis.