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Rancho Mirage, Calif. — In recognition of the “ambitious and unstinting” efforts of three California community college programs toward fostering student success and equity, Chancellor Brice W. Harris presented the Student Success Award at a ceremony today to representatives of American River College’s Veterans Resource Center, Merced Community College District’s Study Central, and Solano Community College’s Umoja Program Scholars.

The Umoja Community is proud to announce that Dieudonne Brou has been selected to receive the 2015 Transfer Scholarship in the amount of $1,000.  Dieudonne, an Umoja program participant at Diablo Valley College, will be transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the fall of 2015.  Dieudonne has been involved with many Umoja events and activities over the last two years and is very excited to be able to continue his education at UCLA where he will major in sociology/psychology.  “My resiliency is my motivation that has humbled and transformed me into a hardworking in