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Before stepping
down from Schreiner University's presidency in 1996, Dr. Sam M.
Junkin initiated the Schreiner Student Sponsorship Program to
address the growing need for student financial aid. The concept was
based on his own experience that donors often enjoy knowing and
following the progress of the beneficiaries of their generosity.
The Student Sponsorship Program has been a great success since it
was first conceived, providing a firm financial foundation for a
generation of aspiring, hard-working students who have been paired
with a community of generous donors.
As of the 2006-07 academic year, the Student Sponsorship Program is
being re-named the Schreiner Scholars Program, and it is
being significantly enhanced, providing a greater number of options
for donors and more opportunities for students.
Scholars will expand beyond the
old Sponsorship program to
include freshmen and nursing students, and in doing so it will help
Schreiner recruit and retain
the best undergraduate scholars, and will also provide aid to our
valuable nursing students.
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Scholars will begin
providing support to the existing Presidential Scholarships,
currently unfunded aid provided to our best and brightest
students.
There will be additional participation levels compared with
the previous program, so that donors can help a scholar at
the financial level at which they are most comfortable.
Participation
levels will be based on average student need instead of cost of
tuition, so donations will be targeted to where they will do the
most good for students in need of assistance.
Finally, donors will have the ability to specify which student they
want to support, instead of being assigned a student, as in the
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The
Office of Financial Aid will
continue to select the students who will participate in the program,
but sponsors may choose their sponsored student from among those
with a particular church affiliation, who reside in a specific city
or area, who are in pursuit of a certain field of study, or any
other criteria of special interest to the sponsor. Schreiner will
assist sponsors in their search for the exact student who they want
to support.
Students who qualify for the program must prove financial need and
must meet the standards of
Satisfactory Academic Progress.
The University will automatically renew Scholars grants each
successive year until graduation from Schreiner as long as the
student remains qualified. However, a donor is under no obligation
to continue their sponsorship from year to year. Gifts to fund a
Scholar grant are tax deductible to the full extent of IRS code.
The Scholars program puts a human face on philanthropy. Sponsors are
often individuals who want to make a significant difference in a
student's life, but sponsors may also be churches, foundations,
other nonprofit entities, or businesses that have the same desire to
help a deserving student reach his or her educational goals at
Schreiner.
The student who is helped by the generosity of a sponsor — even if
that donor chooses to remain anonymous — learns an important lesson
about sharing, and many times after graduation they become
benefactors themselves.
With your help, a deserving student will have an opportunity that he
or she may not otherwise have been able to afford: the chance to
continue studying at Schreiner University; the chance to expand the
spiritual, moral and educational growth they first sought here; and
the chance to become a leader for tomorrow's church and community. |
