Tuition paid, Summer Internship USDA Career on the Horizon

Aisha Williams is sponsored by USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service where she will be interning during the summer.

Each year, Eston Williams, TSU’s official USDA/ 1890 “I want to thank Eston and the USDA for granting me this opportunity. Branch out. That’s what Program Liaison, has the college is all about.” opportunity to welcome students to Aisha Williams TSU’s College USDA/1890 National Scholar of Agriculture. These students who have successfully been accepted into the USDA/1890 National Scholars Program are exceptional. They have demonstrated academic excellence, leadership, and commitment to community.

The USDA/ 1890 National Scholars Program has the potential to change a student’s life because the student scholar not only receives full tuition, employment, employment benefits, fees, books, and room and board for up to four years, but also upon graduation, they find themselves USDA, Continued on page 36

working for the USDA full-time.

Though Williams was not a USDA/1890 National Scholar (the program started long after he started working for the USDA), he understands what it’s like to hold a position with the USDA and be a graduate of TSU.

“I have worked 39 years with the feds. You weren’t all born yet,” Williams told a young group of TSU College of Agriculture honors students in December. Williams is proud to introduce the four TSU students who are USDA/ 1890 National Scholars for 2021. They are Aisha Williams, 19, of Tuskegee, Alabama; Colby Taylor, 22, of Lexington, Tennessee; Dalen Cozart, 18, of Lexington, Kentucky; and Skye Green, 20, of Brownsville, Tennessee.

Aisha Williams who came to campus initially as a Suntrust Now Truist scholar applied for the USDA/ 1890 National Scholars Program and was accepted in her junior year.

“I want to thank Eston and the USDA