(BPRW) American Campus Communities Marks twenty five-calendar year Partnership with Prairie See A&M College as a result of $225,000 Grant
(Black PR Wire) — AUSTIN, Texas – Very long-time period partners Prairie See A&M College (PVAMU) and American Campus Communities (ACC: NYSE) rejoice their twenty five-calendar year partnership with the establishment of two tutorial scholarship plans and a new endowment.
The expenditure will assist and highlight the tutorial nature of ACC’s mission. More than the up coming 5 yrs, ACC will assist PVAMU college students with a complete contribution of $225,000 to be dispersed as follows:
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An annual $15,000 American Campus Communities “Next Step” Scholarship supporting college students with fantastic fiscal will need
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Two annual $5,000 “Success by Design” scholarships, awarded to two college students majoring in mission-connected fields, these kinds of as architecture and design An included objective is to stimulate fairness and variety in job paths that can right impact the college student housing sector.
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An annual $twenty,000 expenditure in the American Campus Communities Endowed Scholarship Fund to support the general assist wants of entire-time undergraduate students
“The endowment, as perfectly as awarding scholarships to college students who will characterize the up coming generation of varied thinkers, is these kinds of a meaningful way to admit and commemorate our longstanding partnership with ACC,” stated Prairie See A&M College president, Ruth J. Simmons. “We take pleasure in ACC’s unwavering commitment to PVAMU.”
All of the first scholarships were lately awarded to PVAMU college students for the 2021-22 school calendar year. The “Next Step” scholarship was awarded to a complete of fifteen college students in $one,000 increments. The inaugural “Success by Design” scholarships were granted to PVAMU upperclassmen, Shantel Hood and William A. Spriggins, V (the two pictured over). Each are juniors in the School of Architecture.
“I’m really humbled and honored to obtain this scholarship the timing of the blessing was excellent. I program on using my resources toward my tuition stability and a self-created desktop to conduct program AutoCAD, Revit and Photoshop to title a couple. I would like to say thank you to ACC for the scholarship chance and PVAMU for creating my transfer practical experience fantastic,” shared Spriggins.
In 1996, PVAMU and ACC began a shared mission to build an academically-concentrated residing and studying setting. Given that then, the partnership has delivered extra than $137 million in college student communities and 9 phases of contemporary academically-oriented housing, serving virtually 5,000 college students with on-campus housing accommodations.
“We will endlessly be grateful to PVAMU as our first college consumer for believing in us considering the fact that our founding days — this is our way of saying thank you even though serving to to devote in upcoming leaders,” stated Monthly bill Bayless, main executive officer at ACC.
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