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Manchester gets $1 million for NxtGen on Campus

Will serve traditionally underserved students and their families in northeast Indiana

Manchester University President Dave McFadden announced today that Lilly Endowment Inc. has given Manchester University $1 million to extend its outreach to traditionally underserved students and their families.

“The grant will enable us to fully develop NxtGen on Campus, which will bring high school students to our North Manchester campus for specialized academic visit days and weeklong summer residential camps at no or little cost to them,” he said.

“Working with our fantastic partners – Fort Wayne Community Schools, Questa Education Foundation, Latinos Count – and others including the American Camp Association, we will move forward immediately to set up this program designed to serve students who come from the first-generation, traditionally underserved and undocumented communities.”

Manchester will hire a NxtGen director and create an admissions counselor position to specialize in serving those students and their families.

“There are a lot of details to be finalized, but the plan is to include faculty, staff, administrators, current students and alumni, professional coaches and trainers in this bold initiative,” McFadden said.

On-campus visits will start this semester, inviting students and their families to explore higher education as an option. Customized for them, the sessions will provide information about researching colleges, applying for admission and plotting a four-year map. A major element will be connecting them to available, and manageable, funding sources.

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