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Black Alumni Council
Founded in 1976, the NIU Black Alumni Council works to support Black students at NIU and to be a resource for NIU's Black alumni. NIUBAC has given more than $25,000 in Fanny Ruth Patterson Scholarship Awards, named for the first Black student to graduate from NIU. Board member Stephanie Carr was a Fanny Ruth Patterson Scholarship Recipient in 1990.