MACON, Ga. — Students and staff of Wesleyan College met Thursday morning at the Porter Auditorium to mark Meaghan Blight's 100th day as college president.
Blight announced plans for a new program to support women in Macon.
She said Wesleyan plans to award scholarships to two local women a year, including nontraditional students such as mothers or older students.
Blight began her presidency by challenging the institution and alumnae to a million-dollar match campaign.
She announced the campaign had raised more than $2 million dollars.
Blight says empowering women is more important than ever.
"As women's rights are being questioned in a very historical way, we need to have protective spaces for women to have important conversations." Blight says.
Blight says the scholarship is called C.E.O-Creating Equal Opportunities.
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