2013 Annual Report

BUILDING A LIFELONG CONNECTION:
MENTORS AND SCHOLARS
“The mentorship program is an investment in NECO, our
students, and the future of our profession by creating a
mutually beneficial relationship during a student’s four
years at NECO and it also gives me a direct connection
to life at the College.” –Kristen Griebel, OD ’97
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” These words are
attributed to Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the bifocal, and are a very fitting reference to the
newly created NECO Alumni Leadership Scholarship. The innovative program, initiated in 2012,
helps the College to attract high-caliber applicants and has already proven very successful in its
inaugural year. Designed to recruit students by offering four-year scholarships to select applicants,
the program pairs a scholarship donor and a student in a mentoring relationship that lasts for his
or her entire NECO experience – and possibly beyond graduation.
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