WSSU Receives Job Corps Scholars Program Grant
By Winston-Salem State University newsroom, Back in the fall of 2019, LaMonica Sloan Wilhelmi and senior staff members at Winston-Salem State University were brainstorming, searching for ideas to help provide more career development options for students. The innovative ideas from that session laid the groundwork for what turned into a $1.2 million Job Corps Scholars Program on the WSSU campus that will provide intensive two-year career preparation for 40 community members a year. “This got started during one of our senior staff meetings in September of 2019,” said Wilhelmi, the associate vice-chancellor and dean of students at WSSU. “The conversation