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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 18, 2009
PROCLAMATION
“Morris College BEEP Day”
Morris College will host ten visiting business executives from across the United States on March 18, 2009, as part of the Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP), in recognition of BEEP’s 40th Anniversary. The Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) is a voluntary partnership between the National Urban League, corporate America, government, non-profits, and other institutions to loan African-American executives to participating colleges as “Visiting Professors”.
BEEP’s mission is to share learning experience across generations, cultivate new leaders, and inspire achievements “beyond the possible” through committed involvement and operational excellence. BEEP exposes students at four-year Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to working professionals in their fields of interest, and through that direct contact familiarizes them with the demands and expectations of those industries. BEEP prepares students to become the sophisticated and well-prepared employees that corporate America and its global competitors are seeking. BEEP provides an opportunity for professionals and corporations, who are interested in giving back to communities, to help credentialed African-American college students achieve their goals.
BEEP is the longest-running program in Urban League history and has reached more than 600,000 students on the campuses of 84 Historically Black Colleges and Universities through the “Floating Faculty” initiative implemented in the spring of 1969. Morris College and the members of the National Urban League’s Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) deserve utmost recognition for their commitment to enhance the quality of education for students in this community, state and country.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Joseph T. McElveen, Jr., Mayor of the City of Sumter, do hereby proclaim March 18, 2009 as
"MORRIS COLLEGE BEEP DAY”
in the
CITY OF SUMTER
and encourage all citizens to join me in commending and thanking Dr. Luns Richardson and the Faculty and Staff of Morris College, as well as the Professors of the National Urban League’s Executive Exchange Program (BEEP), for their tireless dedication to higher education.
Joseph T. McElveen, Jr., Mayor
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