Nicole Farmer Hurd, Ph.D., founder and executive director of the National College Advising Corps, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship for 2011. She is one of 44 emerging American leaders chosen for this program representing 16 states and the District of Columbia.
Nicole Farmer Hurd, Ph.D., founder and executive director of the National College Advising Corps, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship for 2011. She is one of 44 emerging American leaders chosen for this program representing 16 states and the District of Columbia.
The Marshall Memorial Fellowship, founded in 1972, is a program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States that educates emerging American leaders on the importance of establishing transatlantic relationships while encouraging them to collaborate on international and domestic policy changes.
Hurd earned a doctorate in religious studies from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.
With support from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Hurd founded a program formerly called the College Guides at the University of Virginia in 2005 that places recent college graduates as advisers in disadvantaged high schools to encourage college enrollment. The program is now active in 13 states.
National College Advising Corps contact: Mia Miranda Xavier, (919) 962-5324, mmxavier@email.unc.edu