Alumna Update-Cicely Tyson
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March 18, 2009
Alumna Update
One year ago, then-graduating senior Cicely Tyson was introducing her namesake – acclaimed actress Cicely Tyson – at B-CU’s commencement ceremonies.
Today, she is receiving accolades herself for her work as a teacher at Samuel W. Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, Florida.
In a recent note sent to President Reed, School of Education Dean Carol Johnson, School of Arts and Humanities Dean James Brooks and other B-CU faculty, Ms. Tyson writes:
“I want to sincerely thank you all for the supreme educational training that you have given me.
I recently received my evaluation from my principal, and I am a "High Performing" teacher – a rating that most first year teachers do not receive.
I am teaching tenth grade English/language arts at my alma mater in Jacksonville, Florida.
I want you all to know that I am making you proud, and I am telling Jacksonville that Bethune-Cookman University prepares Highly Qualified Educators!!! T
Thanks so much to all of my professors who have put up with me and helped me along the way.
I will never forget you all and our motto "Enter to Learn Depart to Serve". I will serve my community and I am going to give back to the university which has given me an immeasurable amount of knowledge and preparation.”
Founded in 1904 by Mary McLeod Bethune, Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU) today sustains her legacy of faith, scholarship and service through its relationship with the United Methodist Church and its commitment to academic excellence and civic engagement. B-CU offers baccalaureate degrees in 37 majors through six academic schools – Arts & Humanities; Business; Education; Nursing; Science, Engineering and Mathematics; and Social Sciences – and maintains intercollegiate athletic programs and instrumental and choral groups that have achieved national recognition. Under the direction of President Trudie Kibbe Reed, the school achieved University status in 2007with the launch of a master’s degree program in transformative leadership. Located in Daytona Beach, B-CU is one of three private historically black colleges in the state of Florida. The institution boasts a diverse and international faculty and student body of more than 3,400.
