Gift allows for scholarship opportunities at Medical College of Georgia
Gift of $1 million expected to allow for more diversity at Medical College of Georgia
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From Staff Reports
AUGUSTA — A $1 million gift from the Medical College of Georgia Foundation is expected to help establish a new scholarship and further diversify the state’s public medical school.
Announced at a Feb. 7 event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of MCG at Augusta University, the gift establishes an endowment whose interest will create scholarship funding for students entering MCG as early as this fall, officials with the institution said.
MCG has several satellite campuses throughout the state, including one based in Albany.
The first scholarship recipients would graduate exactly 50 years after the medical school’s first two black students, the late Dr. John T. Harper Sr. and Dr. Frank Rumph. Both earned their medical degrees in 1971.
The hope among officials is that the initial endowment will grow over time and help attract a more diverse student body at MCG that reflects the state it serves.
“The idea is to keep more and more of the best and brightest students in Georgia and at MCG,” said Ian Mercier, president and CEO of the MCG Foundation. “The school does a terrific job of recruiting applicants and this scholarship, we hope, will make choosing MCG an easier decision.”
For more information on the scholarship program or to donate funds, contact University Advancement at (706) 755-3713.
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