{"id":73731,"date":"2022-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/05\/24\/allied-health-scholarships-top-endowment-of-4-million\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:26:35","slug":"allied-health-scholarships-top-endowment-of-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/05\/24\/allied-health-scholarships-top-endowment-of-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Allied health scholarships top endowment of $4 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions celebrates 50 years since its founding as a school in 1972, UNMC Today will offer an occasional series of stories that looks back at key milestones and forward to an unlimited future.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The UNMC College of Allied Health Professions has much to be proud of throughout its history, but few would dispute that the college’s momentum — in research, enrollment and reach — has picked up in recent years. The growth has been spurred in large measure by philanthropy, resulting in endowed faculty positions, and in a robust scholarship program.<\/p>\n

By 2021, six years since the formal establishment of the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions in 2015, University of Nebraska Foundation-endowed, named scholarships for the college had increased by 274%, to an endowment of more than $3.8 million.<\/p>\n

These scholarships have allowed the college to support dreams and increase opportunities to become allied health care professionals for underrepresented students from across Nebraska. These scholarships, and the students who hold them, work to create a high-quality, diverse workforce to serve all of Nebraska — including its medically underserved areas.<\/p>\n

The Thayer Family Foundation, already one of the scholarship fund’s most generous backers, recently announced another major gift toward the education of UNMC allied health students, pushing the total endowed scholarship fund to more than $4.3 million. Through outright and matching gifts, the Thayer Family Foundation scholarship has now reached $1.6 million, representing the single largest endowed scholarship fund available for CAHP students.<\/p>\n

"The Thayer family is an amazing family and, like all of our endowed scholarship benefactors, a Nebraska treasure," said Kyle Meyer, PhD, dean of the College of Allied Health Professions. "Their commitment to the college and its students will literally change the lives of countless students, as well as the lives of the patients they will ultimately serve."<\/p>\n

Receiving one of these endowed scholarships has been life-changing, said Gracie Grote, a diagnostic medical sonography student at the Health Science Education Complex in Kearney. "It reminds me there are people out there who believe in me," she said.<\/p>\n

"It’s immensely humbling that so many individuals recognize the value of the allied health professions and have invested so generously to help our students and ensure UNMC continues to educate a quality allied health workforce for the next 50 years," Dr. Meyer said.<\/p>\n

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