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Cheryl L. Kight - Vice President, Marketing

Columbus, July 2007

AT&T AND JP MORGAN/CHASE FUND MINORITY RECRUITMENT PROJECTS AT SIX INDEPENDENT COLLEGES

Through funding from AT&T and JP Morgan Chase, The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges (OFIC) has awarded grants to six of its member colleges and universities for the 20007-2008 academic year to implement projects aimed at recruiting minority students.    

Through competitive proposal submission, Baldwin-Wallace College, the University of Dayton, Heidelberg College, Lourdes College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University and Ohio Northern University will receive grants totaling $76,000 for their proposed projects.   Recipients were required to design projects involving collaboration with local school districts, community colleges and college access programs to recruit minority students, increase their awareness of the possibility of higher education and to educate them regarding the college admission/financial aid process.   More than 3,000 individuals (students, faculty, staff and counselors) were directly impacted by similar programs implemented during the 2006-07 academic year.

Both AT&T and JP Morgan Chase have partnered with OFIC for many years in its mission to provide access to higher education for Ohio’s students, providing funding to support scholarships, diversity programs and faculty development.    

OFIC, a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, is the primary corporate and foundation solicitation organization for 35 Ohio independent colleges and universities. OFIC member colleges collectively enroll nearly 97,000 students.  For 57 years The Foundation has worked to highlight the leadership, value and excellence of independent higher education.  Through contributions raised in annual solicitations of businesses and foundations OFIC has provided unrestricted operating funds and scholarship assistance, thereby assuring continuation of excellence in independent higher education.  OFIC is governed by a Board of Trustees comprised of Ohio’s corporate leaders, as well as presidents of the 35 member colleges.

The member colleges are:  Antioch College, Ashland University, Baldwin-Wallace College, Bluffton University, Capital University, Cedarville University, University of Dayton, Defiance College, Denison University, The University of Findlay, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Franklin University, Heidelberg College, Hiram College, John Carroll University, Kenyon College, Lake Erie College, Lourdes College, Malone College, Marietta College, Mount Union College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Muskingum College, Notre Dame College, Oberlin College, Ohio Dominican University, Ohio Northern University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Otterbein College, Urbana University, Ursuline College, Walsh University, Wilmington College, Wittenberg University and The College of Wooster.