The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges
250 E. Broad St., Suite 1700
Columbus, Ohio 43215-3722
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614-469-1950 or briggs@ofic.org, kight@ofic.org
COLUMBUS RESIDENT, RECIPIENT OF AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY SCHOLARSHIP, PURSUING BIOLOGY DEGREE AT CAPITAL UNIVERSITY
Rachel Kluz, from Columbus, Ohio is a senior at Capital University majoring in Biology. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the American Electric Power Company (AEP) through The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges’ Ohio Scholars Program.
In a thank-you letter to her scholarship donor, Rachel commented that a college education at Capital University is quite an investment and said that financial obstacles made her senior year enrollment, for a time, uncertain. “If it were not for the assistance I receive from generous donors such as American Electric Power,” she said, “I simply would not have been able to continue my education here at Capital.”
Rachel plans to attend optometry school following her graduation in December 2009. She is eager to apply all she has learned during her undergraduate studies to a health profession and is excited about the opportunity to provide vision care to those who need it.
“Thank you,” she says to AEP, “for assisting me with one of the largest investments of my life – my education. Thanks for your commitment to my success.”
OFIC is the primary corporate and foundation solicitation organization for 34 independent Ohio colleges and universities and operates one of the largest, most comprehensive and diverse scholarship management services in the state. OFIC member colleges collectively enroll nearly 97,000 students and award one-third of all bachelor’s degrees in the state. For 58 years OFIC has worked to highlight the leadership, value and excellence of independent higher education and has provided unrestricted operating funds and scholarship commitments through funds raised in annual solicitations of businesses and foundations, thereby assuring continuation of excellence in private higher education. OFIC is governed by a Board of Trustees comprised of Ohio’s corporate leaders, as well as presidents of the 34 member colleges.
The member colleges are: 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 University, 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.