Michelle Brown-Nevers

Michelle H. Brown-Nevers, associate vice president for student services in student registration and financial services at University of Pennsylvania, was honored with the Outstanding Alumni Award for Achievement and Leadership during the 14th Biennial Conference of the Tri-State Consortium of Opportunity Programs in Higher Education, a non-profit association in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania that offers opportunity programs for college students from educationally and financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Dr. Brown-Nevers, a first-generation college graduate, was a student member of the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program at the City University of New York (CUNY) at Baruch College where she completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees before obtaining a master’s and a doctorate from Columbia University. The SEEK Program, now in its 51st year of existence, was signed into law in 1966, and was the first “opportunity program” in the nation.