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SSP Locally Grown Scholarship Breakfast

Celebrating 30 Years of Dreams to Degrees

The annual SSP Locally Grown Scholarship Breakfast celebrates Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP) graduates who attend UW-L and other area colleges.  An outreach program of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality  Studies Department, SSP is pre-college program for single-parents and other adults who are interested in going to college.  SSP is offered each fall and spring semester with generous campus and community support. 

This year's speaker is Amy Sullivan, PhD, the Director of SSP from 2002-2011. She hosted the first Locally Grown Scholarship Awards Breakfast in 2004. Commemorating SSP's founding in 1988, Amy will speak on Knowledge as Power: 30 years of SSP.  Amy teaches teaches at Macalester College and is working on an oral history and book project about the opioid epidemic.  

SSP alumni, volunteers and interns, donors and friends of SSP are encouraged to attend.  There are no charge for the Breakfast, but an RSVP is required by November 8.  Email your reservation to uwlaxssp@gmail.com.

The UW-L Foundation, Western Technical College Foundation, and Viterbo University are sponsors of the Breakfast.

This semester's scholarship recipients are:

Amanda Christianson, Hospitality & Tourism, Western Technical College

Erin Lee, Human Services Associates Program, Western Technical College

Kazou Yang, Early & Middle Childhood Education, UW-La Crosse

Lisa Jensen Ehlers, Psychology, UW-La Crosse

Jessica Schwanke, Health Education Technology, Western Technical College

Xia Yang, Early & Middle Childhood Education, UW-La Crosse

 

 

 

 

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When

Past occurrences (1)

  • 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018

Where

The Bluffs, Student Union

UWL campus map for building location and nearby parking lots.

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse The Bluffs, Student Union

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Andrea Hansen at 608.785.8733 or ahansen@uwlax.edu.

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