Neag School Receives $300K Award to Support Mentor Education

Through a generous $300,000 award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, high school seniors enrolled in the foundation’s Young Scholars Program will be able to pursue areas of interest and advanced learning during a three-week residential program housed on the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus in the summer of 2018.

Modeled after the Neag School of Education’s Mentor Connection program — which was developed at the Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development and hosted at UConn for 20 years…(Read full article)