Helping Memorial Students to Afford College
The true measure of a student's success: getting a degree
Paying for a college education has become a mountain for many students and their families to climb. Any parent who has helped a son or daughter go to college knows what an undertaking—even sacrifice—it is. At the same time, a college education remains of great value. Not only is the college experience a path to personal growth and discovery, it also leads to significantly greater earning power. As estimated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a college graduate can expect to earn, over a lifetime, greater than $1 million over the earnings of a high school graduate.
We formed the Charger Pride Scholarship Foundation to help students from Memorial to climb that mountain and not just make it to college but to succeed in obtaining a degree. Many organizations such as ours help students with a stipend for their freshman year, which is laudable—but what of the succeeding years?
That is our challenge, the task we have set ourselves. First, growing our organization so that we can help worthy students with the cost of college for all four years of their education. And second, in recognition of the fact that almost a third of college students don’t even return for their sophomore year, helping Memorial grads to succeed at staying in school by guiding them to mentoring and student support programs.
