$50 million pledged toward scholarships
Weatherhead scholars will enroll in a curriculum focused on community engagement.
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| Al and Celia Weatherhead at their home, in 2008. Weatherhead was a Cleveland industrialist whose family foundation has pledged $100 million to Tulane since 2009. (Photo by Thomas Ondrey / The Cleveland Plain Dealer) |
Two years after committing $50 million to create universitywide professorships at Tulane, the Weatherhead Foundation, in June 2011, pledged another $50 million to help Tulane attract more students whose academic achievements are matched by their passion for community service.
Weatherhead scholars will enroll in a curriculum that is focused on community engagement and transforms classroom knowledge into community action.
"By attracting a talented corps of undergraduate leaders who embrace Tulane's public service mission, we can foster the next generation of citizens who recognize that material success is meaningless without the human wealth that comes from joyous interaction with other people," Albert J. Weatherhead III, president of the Weatherhead Foundation, said when the grant was announced in June 2011. He died this past fall.
The new Weatherhead Scholars Program will be the first program of its kind in the country sponsored by a single donor. It is expected that the first Weatherhead scholars will enroll at Tulane by 2013. |
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