SCPS Student Wins Marshall Scholarship

Marc Gustafson, a 29-year-old senior in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University to pursue an advanced degree in modern Middle Eastern studies.

Gustafson left college in 1997 to co-found Reach the World (RTW), a nonprofit that helps teach low-income students about world cultures and geography, and which is funded in part by the National Geographic Society Education Foundation. In 2004, while still working at RTW, he returned to school in SCPS’s Paul McGhee Division—the undergraduate program for returning adult students, where he will earn his B.A. in social sciences, with a concentration in international studies, in May 2007.

More details on Gustafson’s pursuits will follow in an upcoming issue of NYU Today.