The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Student gets $25,000 Beyoncé scholarship
Imagine waking up and realizing you had a gift from award-winning musical artist Beyoncé. Well, one metro-Atlanta college student did.
Kameron Willis of Morehouse College is one of eight winners of the 2018-2019 Homecoming Scholars Award Program by Beyoncé. The scholarship, specifically dedicated to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, gifts $25,000 to each winning student for their studies.
The rising sophomore said he called his mom imme- diately after he saw the announcement.
“I had to look four times to make sure that was my name,” Willis said. “I was in disbelief.”
Willis, a Cleveland, Ohio native, mentioned that the scholarship announce- ment came at a great time because he and his mother were struggling to figure out how to pay for his next year of school. At Morehouse, Willis is studying biology and wants to pursue a career as a surgeon.
The Homecoming Scholars Award program was announced in April after Beyoncé’s Coachella perfor- mance, where she paid homage to the homecoming week- end experience at HBCUs. According to her website, scholarship winners could be any major, but they had to have a grade point aver- age of 3.5 or above. Willis has a 3.75 GPA.
This isn’t the first time Beyoncé has provided scholarships for students at HBCUs. Last year, she cel- ebrated the anniversary of her album “Lemonade” by awarding scholarships to four “Formation scholars,” including Morehouse’s neigh- boring institution Spelman College.
Students at Bethune-Cook- man, Wilberforce, Xavier, Tuskegee, Texas Southern, Fisk and Grambling State were also awarded the Home- coming scholarship.