About our past
In April 1987, the Bloomington Faculty Council approved the establishment of the Minority Achievers Program (MAP), with the first students enrolling in the fall of 1988. The idea of implementing MAP resulted from the lack of vigorous recruiting of qualified minority students by Indiana University Bloomington. Designed to assist in enriching the intellectual, creative, and leadership pool in Indiana, MAP searches nationwide for the most capable minority students. The program was also a response to the brain drain of talented minority residents of Indiana attending universities outside the state.
In 1993, the Mathematics and Science Scholarship (MASS) Program was added to the MAP to attract qualified minority students of color who desired to major in mathematics and the natural sciences. The MASS Program was a conscious attempt to build upon the success of MAP. Like MAP, MASS worked to attract superior African American, Hispanic, and Native American students to Indiana University Bloomington.
During the fall of 2004, the Minority Achievers Program (MAP) and the Mathematics and Science Scholarship (MASS) were renamed the Herman C. Hudson and James P. Holland Scholars Program in recognition of the numerous contributions of Dr. Herman C. Hudson and Dr. James P. Holland to the campus of Indiana University Bloomington.