Paul Quinn College, Minerva Project Announce Urban Scholars Program Launching Fall 2020 | Dallas Weekly

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Paul Quinn College, Minerva Project Announce Urban Scholars Program Launching Fall 2020 | Dallas Weekly

Paul Quinn College (PQC),America’s first urban work college and one of the most celebrated colleges in the country, is pleased to announce the launch of the Urban Scholars Program in partnership with Minerva Project,a pathbreaking educational innovator. The co-designed program is an innovative, accredited, degree-granting program offered out of the newly established Honors College at Paul Quinn College to train the []

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