Beyonce Gives $25,000 Scholarship To Nashville's Fisk University

NASHVILLE, TN -- Nashville's Fisk University is one of eight recipients of a $25,000 scholarship from Beyonce as part of the megastar's BeyGOOD Homecoming Scholars program.

During her set at Coachella, Beyonce announced the program, saying four historically black colleges and universities - New Orleans' Xavier University of Louisiana, Ohio's Wilberforce University, Alabama's Tuskegee University, and Bethune-Cookman in Daytona Beach, Fla. - would receive the $25,000 scholarships. Later, Google said it would match Beyonce's $100,000, opening up the opportunity to four other colleges.

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Joining Fisk in the second batch of schools is Texas Southern in Beyonce's native Houston, Louisiana's Grambling State and Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Beyonce's father, Mathew Knowles, is a Fisk alumnus.

“It is a tremendous honor to be selected for the BeyGOOD Homecoming Scholars Award Program,” says Fisk University President Kevin D. Rome Sr. in a release. “Financial support is essential to our mission, affording students the opportunity to realize their dreams. We are especially thankful for Beyoncé’s philanthropic commitment to historically black colleges and universities.”

Applications for student recepients opened May 1 and will run through month's end. Fisk will announce the winner this summer.

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