Tag: Scholarship Fund

African-American

Morgan State University Receives $20 Million Gift to Bolster Scholarship Fund

Morgan State University (MSU) has received $20 million from alumnus and philanthropist Calvin E. Tyler Jr. and his wife, Tina, to increase and expand the Calvin and Tina Tyler Endowed Scholarship Fund, which was first created in 2002. This $20 million gift is the largest alum contribution of its kind to a historically Black college […]

February 22, 2021

News Roundup

Late English Professor Gifts University $350,000 for Student Scholarship Endowment

Linda Hill, an English professor at Claflin University who died April 2019, has left $350,000 to the school, CNN reported. Hill taught at the South Carolina university for 46 years. Her gift – the largest ever from any current or former Clafin staff – for a student scholarship fund. Clafin will also name its writing […]

November 19, 2020

COVID-19

Texas A&M System Creates $100 Million Fund to ‘Address Diversity Issues’

The Texas A&M University System will create a special $100 million scholarship fund “to address diversity issues” and assist students who have been economically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the institution said on Monday. The scholarship program at the 11-university system will provide $10 million annually over the course of 10 years for scholarships to […]

June 16, 2020

Students

Hudson Valley Couple Receive Award For Accomplishments with Latino Scholarship Fund

Eddie and Norma Ramirez have been named the recipients of the 2019 Richard K. Wager Inclusive Champion Award for their work with the Hudson Valley Latino Scholarship Fund in upstate New York. The award, named after a former Poughkeepsie Journal publisher, honors local businesses or groups that promote diversity and inclusiveness. The Poughkeepsie, New York […]

January 14, 2019