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News from Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Media contact: Joan Aschim, 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Source: Janet Anderson, LCC Foundation, (541) 463-5803.
for release May 3, 2004
Lane Community College Foundation receives grant for early childhood education scholarships
EUGENE -
The Lane Community College Foundation has received a grant from
the John and Betty Gray Early Childhood Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation.
The grant will provide $1,000 scholarships to 20 early childhood education
students annually for the next five academic years.
According to Janet Anderson, director of the LCC Foundation, "These
scholarships are the stepping stone to higher education for many qualified
early childhood education students who otherwise couldn't afford college.
The scholarships will benefit not just the Lane students, but the countless
youngsters whose lives they'll influence in the future."
Lane's Early Childhood Education Program prepares students to work with young children from birth through five years of age in a variety of settings, including childcare centers, family child care, preschools, Head Start, school age programs, home visiting and parent education. Lane offers a one-year certificate and a two-year degree program that prepares students to work as teacher assistants or teachers in childcare programs or other early childhood settings.
Fourteen Oregon community colleges and their foundations collaborated on the successful proposal to the Oregon Community Foundation, and the resulting $750,000 grant provides the community colleges with $150,000 each year for five years to provide scholarships to early childhood education students. The project marked the first time the Oregon community colleges had partnered on a grant project of this size. They agreed to share in the proceeds based on the relative size of their early childhood education programs. LCC will serve as fiscal agent. Lori Bumgardner Steger, grants coordinator at the LCC Foundation, wrote and submitted the proposal.
Information about Lane's early childhood education scholarships is available
at 2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/foundation/.
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