EMPOWERING - Middlesex County College

We are proud to report that in our 40th Anniversary year, 2006/2007, Middlesex
County College Foundation achieved unprecedented success. Our mission of “Helping
students open doors to their futures with financial aid, scholarships and educational
resources” was advanced via the strong finish of our Community Investment Campaign
and the generosity of both new and loyal supporters. Together, these contributors have
given generously to ensure deserving Middlesex County College students have the
financial resources necessary to help achieve their academic goals. These donors are
truly Empowering Dreams.
Empowering Dreams at Middlesex County College speaks to the likelihood that a
scholarship recipient may be the first in his family to access a college education. Having
achieved a degree, these students will be more likely to send their own children to
college. Empowering Dreams describes the effect of a scholarship for a single mother
or as a career-changer working to improve his/her quality of life through education. It
also describes the affect scholarship support has on students like Namema Amendi,
an immigrant from Kenya. His dream was to come to the United States and receive
a medical education in order to assist the many people he witnessed suffering from
diseases like malaria, AIDS, and typhoid in the neighborhood of his youth. A Foundation
scholarship helped him graduate with honors this past May. His Middlesex County
College education helped him to qualify for another prestigious scholarship which is
allowing him to continue as a pre-med student at Columbia this fall. By empowering
his dreams, Foundation donors have created a ripple effect to strengthen the community
as a whole. Imagine the many lives Namema will touch because he was, through the help
of a Foundation scholarship, able to pursue his dream of a medical education.
Between July 2006 and June 2007, 20 new named scholarships were established
with the Foundation. This brings the total named scholarships to 90, representing the
largest number of named scholarship funds among the 21 community colleges in
New Jersey. The criteria used to select a recipient is as diverse as the College’s degree
program and its student population.
In addition to the named scholarship funds, (see list on next page) general
contributions to the Foundation allow for additional scholarships to be awarded
to the students with the greatest financial need. In all, more than 620 scholars had their
dreams empowered through Foundation scholarship assistance in academic year
2006 – 2007. But that’s not all —
Middlesex County College Foundation • 3
A YEAR IN REVIEW 2006 – 2007
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Foundation Scholar,
Namema Amendi.
Scholarship benefactor,
Barbra Siperstein, with Foundation
Associate Executive Director,
Eileen Cotter.
Foundation Board member Brian
Daugherty and his wife, Kathy.
Barbara Bernard, Foundation
Board member and Scholarship
Ball Chair with Linda J. Landis,
Foundation Chair.