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University Neighborhood Partner Celebrates 5th Anniversary
November 12, 2007
New Pathfinder Scholarship Fund announced.
University Neighborhood Partners (UNP) celebrated its fifth anniversary on Thursday, November 1, 2007 with a dinner for founding donors and current partners at Red Butte Garden. Vice President for Institutional Advancement and UNP Board of Advisors co-chair, Fred Esplin, welcomed the 150 guests as Masters of Ceremonies for the evening. UNP founding director Irene Fisher announced the creation of the UNP Pathfinder Scholarship Fund, which is slated to provide tuition and fee assistance to west Salt Lake youth and adults pursuing pre-college exposure to higher education through classes, field trips, institutes and other educational programs beginning in 2008.
Rosemarie Hunter, UNP director, highlighted the role of campus and community partnerships in developing several, now nationally-known, partnership programs. UNP Board of Advisors co-chair, Joyce Valdez, introduced the premiere of the first UNP video documenting the organization’s partnership work. Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, A. Lorris Betz, provided closing remarks.
Because one of UNP’s major goals is to support youth from west Salt Lake neighborhoods to view higher education as an option for their own lives, the Pathfinder Scholarship has been created to enable pre-college youth—sometimes as young as kindergarteners—to engage in on-campus activities, explained Fisher.“I envision children from Parkview, from Mountain View, from Riley, from Northwest and other schools graduating from college and returning to these neighborhoods as engineers, as pharmacists, as teachers, as parents and as citizens to enrich the neighborhoods and broader community for all of us,” Fisher said.
For more information about University Neighborhood Partners visit www.partners.utah.edu.