Training for the Ph.D.: national conference brings together first-generation college students on the road to a doctoral degree

Black Issues in Higher Education, April 8, 2004 by Cassie Chew

Tonia Perry-Conley, associate director of the program at Delaware State University, is excited about the challenges ahead as she begins to recruit the first class of McNair students at the university.

"What I have seen now is the whole thing come full circle," Perry-Conley, who has worked to prepare middle-school students for high school and high-school students for college. "I can see how you prepare students to be professionals."