Heights MSAN students visit Kent State

Sixty-seven Cleveland Heights-University Heights students who belong to the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) made their annual visit to Kent State University for its Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on Jan. 26. 

MSAN is a national coalition of multiracial, suburban-urban school districts that have come together to study achievement gaps that exist in their districts. MSAN provides minority CH-UH students enrolled in gifted and accelerated programs with cultural enrichment and opportunities to strengthen critical thinking skills.

CH-UH MSAN students were joined by MSAN students from Shaker Middle School at the celebration. In all, 142 students from the two districts were greeted by university officials and formally acknowledged at the keynote presentation given by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a cultural anthropologist, activist, author and professor at Teachers College of Columbia University.