(BPRW) American Campus Communities Marks 25-year Partnership with Prairie View A&M University through $225,000 Grant | Press releases

(BPRW) American Campus Communities Marks 25-12 months Partnership with Prairie View A&M University by $225,000 Grant

(Black PR Wire) — AUSTIN, Texas – Long-phrase companions Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) and American Campus Communities (ACC: NYSE) celebrate their 25-12 months partnership with the establishment of two tutorial scholarship plans and a new endowment. 

The expenditure will support and highlight the tutorial character of ACC’s mission. Around the next five years, ACC will support PVAMU students with a complete contribution of $225,000 to be distributed as follows:

• An once-a-year $15,000 American Campus Communities “Next Step” Scholarship supporting students with excellent fiscal will need

• Two once-a-year $5,000 “Success by Design” scholarships, awarded to two students majoring in mission-associated fields, this kind of as architecture and style and design An extra aim is to stimulate fairness and diversity in occupation paths that can straight influence the scholar housing sector.

• An once-a-year $twenty,000 expenditure in the American Campus Communities Endowed Scholarship Fund to help the typical support requires of entire-time undergraduate students 

“The endowment, as nicely as awarding scholarships to students who will signify the next era of numerous thinkers, is this kind of a significant way to accept and commemorate our longstanding partnership with ACC,” stated Prairie View A&M University president, Ruth J. Simmons. “We respect ACC’s unwavering commitment to PVAMU.”

All of the preliminary scholarships had been not too long ago awarded to PVAMU students for the 2021-22 university 12 months. The “Next Step” scholarship was awarded to a complete of fifteen students in $one,000 increments. The inaugural “Success by Design” scholarships had been granted to PVAMU upperclassmen, Shantel Hood and William A. Spriggins, V (both pictured earlier mentioned). Equally are juniors in the School of Architecture.

“I’m incredibly humbled and honored to get this scholarship the timing of the blessing was great. I plan on employing my cash in direction of my tuition balance and a self-designed desktop to accomplish software package AutoCAD, Revit and Photoshop to name a several. I would like to say thank you to ACC for the scholarship possibility and PVAMU for producing my transfer experience excellent,” shared Spriggins.

In 1996, PVAMU and ACC began a shared mission to create an academically-centered dwelling and understanding ecosystem. Because then, the partnership has delivered extra than $137 million in scholar communities and nine phases of fashionable academically-oriented housing, serving virtually 5,000 students with on-campus housing accommodations.

“We will permanently be grateful to PVAMU as our initial college shopper for believing in us considering that our founding times — this is our way of saying thank you when assisting to make investments in foreseeable future leaders,” stated Invoice Bayless, main govt officer at ACC.