Supporting scholarships provides opportunities for more students — students like Delancy Allred, a Blue Sky Scholar at Carolina. The Blue Sky Scholars program supports exceptionally well qualified North Carolina residents from middle-income backgrounds. So students like Delancy can make the most of their experience and thrive at Carolina.
“Growing up in Jamestown, North Carolina, in a close-knit family of teachers, I have always valued education and thought about ways I could have an impact on teachers and students. “I was given incredible opportunities as one of the first 20 Blue Sky Scholars at Carolina.” Support students like Delancy
“I spent a semester in our nation’s capital with the honors seminar on public policy and global affairs and interned at the Autism Society of America. “This experience changed the trajectory of my career as I learned more about the inequities people with disabilities face in our nation.”
“I applied to the Teach for America program and was accepted and am now a special education teacher at Baltimore Public Schools. The way my life has turned out wouldn’t have been possible without the Blue Sky Scholars program.”