CAS Student Wins Coveted Truman Scholarship
Augustine Jimenez believes “all families deserve opportunities to lift themselves out of poverty”
Augustine Jimenez is on a roll. In high school, he won a Posse Foundation Scholarship that allowed him to attend BU tuition free for four years. As a sophomore, he won an Initiative on Cities National League of Cities Menino Fellowship for future leaders, an honor bestowed on one BU student a year.
In April 2019, he hit the trifecta, honored with a Truman Scholarship, an award given to a small number of college juniors across the nation based on their leadership, academic achievement, and commitment to public service.
For Jimenez (CAS’20), that commitment to helping others stems from a childhood of challenges and seeing the realities of economic inequality up close.