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Wells Fargo Advisors awards $24,000 scholarship grant to Missouri Colleges Fund

Published on May 31, 2012 by Jennifer Hall

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Evangel University is one of 16 private liberal arts colleges and universities in Missouri that will benefit from a $24,000 scholarship grant recently provided by the Wells Fargo Advisors to the Missouri Colleges Fund.

This grant from the Wells Fargo Advisors will provide scholarships to students studying in a business-related field with special emphasis on minority candidates.

“Wells Fargo Advisors has a long-standing commitment of support for education in the communities where our team members live and work,” said Danny Ludeman, president and CEO of Wells Fargo Advisers.

“Evangel University is grateful to be among the recipients of this generous gift to higher education,” said Dr. Robert H. Spence, president. “Many students would not be able to attend college without the assistance of scholarships, and we are indebted to Wells Fargo Advisors and the Missouri Colleges Fund for providing resources to educate the workforce of tomorrow.”

The MCF was formed in 1952 as a partnership of private enterprise and the member independent colleges and universities in the Show-Me state.

Missouri Colleges Fund member schools include Avila University and Rockhurst University, Kansas City; Central Methodist University, Fayette; Columbia College, Columbia; Culver-Stockton College, Canton; Drury University and Evangel University, Springfield; Fontbonne University, Maryville University and Missouri Baptist University, St. Louis; Hannibal–LaGrange College, Hannibal; Park University, Parkville; Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar; Westminster College and William Woods University, Fulton; and William Jewell College, Liberty.

More information about the Missouri Colleges Fund can be found online at www.mocollegesfund.org or by calling Mike Backer, MCF president, at 573-893-3818.