Social Impact
Our mission is to empower and support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students as they navigate the often complex and challenging process of finding and applying for domestic and international scholarships.
Breaking Barriers
Scholarships Cafe has been instrumental in engaging over 100 universities globally to remove barriers that could hinder Black youth from accessing higher education. Our goal is to promote diversity and inclusion in higher education and provide Black youth with equitable access to educational opportunities.
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Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, a post doctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, has been leading a campaign to exempt Nigerian candidates from English-language proficiency testing requirements- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-nigerian-students-challenge-language-proficiency-requirements-as/
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Early this year, a bug seemed to have bitten Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, a postdoctoral fellow in mycology at Canada’s University of British Columbia. As a native of Nigeria, he often found himself fielding questions from young people from his country about how to further their studies in the West, https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/26/nigeria-africa-migration-us-europe-canada/
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Dr Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, a Nigerian academic based in Canada wrote a letter to the Unversity of Alberta requesting that Nigeria be removed from countries that have to present proof of English test before admission. Read more: https://www.legit.ng/people/1473209-canadian-univeristy-strikes-outnigeria-from-countries-that-must-present-proof-english-test/