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WARNER SCHOOL

OF EDUCATION

• Growing support for the Horizons at Warner summer
program for more than 150 low-income youth has
allowed the program to flourish and sustain its
programming at the University.

• Support continues to fuel the school’s work with the
University’s Educational Partnership Organization
(EPO) at East, making extracurricular experiences
possible for many East High students and launching the
Center for Urban Education Success. The center will
inform best practices at East High and capture what is
being learned through the EPO, and from other school
$2,065,349 reform initiatives, for the benefit of struggling urban
Pledged high schools facing similar challenges.

• The establishment of critically needed George Eastman
Circle scholarships at the school will assist in attracting
exemplary students to its counseling, teaching, and
school leadership programs.

SCHOOL

OF NURSING

• The school awarded a total of $1.86 million in financial
aid to 174 students. This support allowed talented
students to pursue a nursing education and help address
national shortages of nurses and nursing faculty.

• The Center for Academic and Professional Success
continued to provide free academic support services.
Nearly 300 nursing students received individual
assistance through the center last year.

• Faculty members received funding for pilot research
studies and support services that are crucial to earning
$1,310,007 externally funded grants, as well as improving
Pledged patient care.