For release: Nov.
27, 2012
News and Media Relations contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu
MTSU School of
Agribusiness and Agriscience contact: Dr. Warren Gill, 615-898-2523 or Warren.Gill@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — MTSU
junior Tori Haege works as a lifeguard at Campus Recreation Center. She wants
to pursue a career in soil conservation science and management or biofuels once
she earns her bachelor’s degree in plant and soil science.
Earlier this year, the Tennessee Council of Cooperatives
made things financially easier for her to attend college by awarding the
Murfreesboro resident a $750 scholarship for the fall semester.
Haege (pronounced HAY-GEE) said the scholarship “helps pay
for my classes. Without scholarships, I would not be in college.”
The 2010 Riverdale High School graduate transferred from the
University of Tennessee-Martin this semester. She also has Tennessee Hope
Lottery, work- study and other scholarships that help her pay for her
education.
Haege said the work-study is a “volunteer community service”
in which she helps grade papers and perform office work in the MTSU Department
of Health and Human Performance.
When Haege would return home to Murfreesboro for weekends
and semester breaks from her UT-Martin classes, she has worked as an MTSU
campus rec lifeguard. Four months ago, after transferring to MTSU, she was
promoted to head lifeguard. She said it is her only job.
Haege maintains about a 3.5 grade-point average in the
classroom.
Dr. Warren Gill, director of MTSU’s School of Agribusiness
and Agriscience in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, said the
partnership between the cooperatives and universities “shows the commitment to
education that’s exemplified in the scholarship and I’m sure the students
appreciate it, too.”
The Tennessee Council of Cooperatives sponsor six college
scholarships for students from each of Tennessee’s four-year agricultural
programs: Austin Peay State University, MTSU, Tennessee Technological
University, the University of Tennessee- Knoxville, UT-Martin and Tennessee
State University in Nashville.
The scholarship, established in 1984, is an effort to
acknowledge and assist college-age students most likely to return to
communities served by rural cooperatives. The Tennessee Council of Cooperatives
considers the scholarships an investment in the future of cooperatives and
their leadership.
Several past scholarship recipients now serve in one of
Tennessee’s cooperatives or in one of the state’s agriculture-related agencies,
which work with, support and help build cooperative businesses.
To be considered for the scholarship, the student must be a
citizen of Tennessee, enrolled in a college of agriculture, maintain a GPA of
2.5 or higher and be in his or her junior year of study.
For more information about the scholarship, Tennessee
cooperatives or the Tennessee Council of Cooperatives, call Roberta Smith at
423-447-2121 or email smithr@bledsoe.net
or visit http://tennesseecouncilofcoops.org/.
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Photo captions
Tori Haege.jpg
MTSU junior Victoria
Haege, center, receives congratulations for the scholarship recognition she
received from Tennessee Council of Cooperatives representative Frank Jennings,
right, and Dr. Warren Gill, director of the School of Agribusiness and
Agriscience. (Submitted photo by Todd Palmer/Middle Tennessee Electric
Membership Corporation)
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