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Ms. Mazey, who will be inaugurated Friday as the 11th president of BGSU, was dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Wright State in 2000 when a graduate student, Dawayne Kirkman, approached her about starting Summerbridge.
“He said, ‘I was the first member of my family to ever graduate from high school,’?” she recalled. “ ‘I had the good fortune of going to a Summerbridge program and Upward Bound and it’s what really changed my life.’ He said, ‘I’d give anything to start one here at Wright State.’ “
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