[417]MTSU SENIOR GIFT PROGRAM NEARS $10,000 GOAL

Release date: April 22, 2008


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919
MTSU Office of Development contact: Meredith Edington, 615-898-2728


MTSU SENIOR GIFT PROGRAM NEARS $10,000 GOAL


(MURFREESBORO) — Entering the spring semester, efforts to reach the $10,000 goal for the Senior Gift Program stood just $2,000 shy of achieving the mark, said Meredith Edington, coordinator of annual giving for the MTSU Office of Development.
“Our goal is to get $10,000 so we can endow it and every year give up to a $1,000 scholarship,” Edington said. The program began in 2005.
“The overall purpose of the Senior Gift Program is to raise funds for the Foundation Graduate Scholarship, which is awarded (each fall) to a student who is attending graduate school at MTSU,” Edington added.
“As an incentive to give to the Senior Gift Program, graduating seniors receive a unique lapel pin to wear on their graduation gown and will be recognized by President (Sidney A.) McPhee during the graduation ceremony,” she said. “Seniors who give to this incentive also will be given top consideration if applying for the Foundation Graduate Scholarship in the future.”
Edington added that the Senior Gift Program is important for graduating seniors “because it is a way for them to leave their legacy and start giving back to the university.”
For more information, contact Edington at edington@mtsu.edu or 615-898-2728.
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