Diverse magazine profiles SUBR student leader

One of Carey Ash's first acts as president of the Student Government Association at Southern University at Baton Rouge was to make sure students who couldn't afford textbooks had access to them anyway. That meant giving up his scholarship money to purchase the books.

When he took office last April, Ash launched the Ivory M. Berry Textbook Assistance Program, which began loaning textbooks this fall to students who couldn't afford them.

For more, see article on DiverseEducation.com.