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Cheryl L. Kight - Vice President, Marketing

Columbus, April 2008

$50,000 JP MORGAN CHASE GRANT TO FUND MINORITY RECRUITMENT
PROJECTS AT OHIO INDEPENDENT COLLEGES

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has awarded $50,000 to The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges (OFIC) to renew its support of projects aimed at recruiting minority students at OFIC member campuses. 

Thirty-five OFIC member colleges and universities across the state will be eligible to submit proposals for projects designed to increase the number of minority students who are recruited, accepted, and succeed at OFIC member institutions.    Projects are required to involve collaboration with local school districts, community colleges and college access programs.

Programs will be selected and funds awarded by June 30, 2008.  Funded programs will be developed and implemented through the summer of 2008 and the 2008-2009 academic year to affect acceptance and enrollment rates for Fall 2009. 

JPMorgan Chase & Co., a 54-year donor to OFIC with a cumulative giving total of more than $1.3 million, has supported OFIC’s diversity initiatives since their inception in 2003.   “We are pleased to continue our support of these programs,” said Jeff Lyttle, Vice President, Midwest Region.  “Our half-century of support to the work of OFIC is a point of great pride for our institution.”

OFIC, a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, is the primary corporate and foundation solicitation organization for 35 Ohio independent colleges and universities. OFIC member colleges collectively enroll nearly 97,000 students.  For 58 years The Foundation has worked to highlight the leadership, value and excellence of independent higher education.  Through contributions raised in annual solicitations of businesses and foundations OFIC has provided unrestricted operating funds and scholarship assistance, thereby assuring continuation of excellence in independent higher education.  OFIC is governed by a Board of Trustees comprised of Ohio’s corporate leaders, as well as presidents of the 35 member colleges.

The member colleges are:  Antioch College, Ashland University, Baldwin-Wallace College, Bluffton University, Capital University, Cedarville University, University of Dayton, Defiance College, Denison University, The University of Findlay, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Franklin University, Heidelberg College, Hiram College, John Carroll University, Kenyon College, Lake Erie College, Lourdes College, Malone College, Marietta College, Mount Union College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Muskingum College, Notre Dame College, Oberlin College, Ohio Dominican University, Ohio Northern University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Otterbein College, Urbana University, Ursuline College, Walsh University, Wilmington College, Wittenberg University and The College of Wooster.