As Commissioner Jordan spoke to supporters at the event, she referred to President Barack Obama’s address to the nation’s students last week, where he remarked that what a student makes of his or her education “will decide nothing less than the future of this country.” 

“President Obama’s astute words exemplify the principles of our United Negro College Fund, which makes education a priority every day for the thousands of students it sends to college annually,” said Commissioner Jordan. “[UNCF is] the reason that many of our minority students, much of whom are the first to attend college in their families, are able to finish school with the skills needed to compete in the job market and make our communities better places to live.”

Florida Memorial University, which resides in Commissioner Jordan’s district, is the only historically black university in southern Florida. The school is one of 39 UNCF-member institutions, and college tuitions for many students are kept lower via donations made to UNCF. About 84 percent of the students at UNCF-member colleges come from low to moderate-income families. Commissioner Jordan is an alumna of Morris Brown College in Atlanta, another historically black college.

For more information on this event, please contact UNCF at 954-527-3315. 

  
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Barbara J. Jordan with Florida Memorial University students: (l-r) Davina Knowles, Ms. Pre-Alumni; Ebony Johnson, Ms. Florida Memorial University; Commissioner Jordan; Isaiah Herbert, President of Pre-Alumni Council; and Dionna Prince, Ms. UNCF. 
(Photo credit: Armando Rodriguez/Miami-Dade County)