David Perez, Project Director of the HCE's Educational Opportunity Center, will become the new Executive Director. David has been an integral part of the leadership of HCE for many years. He joined the HCE Educational Opportunity Center in September 2007. As Project Director he oversaw budget, fundraising, reporting to funding authorities, developing and maintaining partnerships...
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Paula Martin, the long-time executive director of the Harlem Center For Education (HCE) announced her retirement after nearly 47 years of service as in three of the city's leading educational enrichment programs (Upward Bound, Talent Search and Educational Opportunity Center) serving middle and high school students and adults in the Harlem community. As one of...
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Just wanted you to know that one of our former students, Rashaun Allen, was just named a Fulbright Scholar. He is a graduate of SUNY Albany and has a Masters of Fine Arts from Stony Brook University from their Creative Writing Program. In fact he is the first Fulbright Scholar from the Creative Writing MFA...
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By Melissa Klein and Susan Edelman, New York Post, October 9, 2016 The federal government cut off a $500,000 grant for a Harlem program that helped poor kids go to college — because it was doing too good a job. After 40 years of funding the Harlem Center for Education, the US Department of Education denied...
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By Clem Richardson New York Daily News Apr 05, 2012 | 4:00 AM As Paula Martin was growing up in West Harlem — about six blocks from where she now lives — her mother decided the local schools might compromise her daughter's future. Frances Martin served in the Woman's Army Corps during World War II,...
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