Magazine: Launched in 2013, Alvernia’s Reading Collegiate Scholars Program provides up to 10 full, four-year scholarships to promising Reading-area students each year while also providing tutoring, mentoring and college application assistance to hundreds more in the inner-city school district. But the program is about much more than access to college.
Magazine: A state government leadership program reflects Alvernia’s educational mission to “foster ethical leaders with moral courage” and the O’Pake Institute’s mandate to support that effort in the school’s curriculum and the broader community.
Magazine: As Work Study environmental educator for the Holleran Center for Community and Global Engagement’s South Reading Youth Initiative, Ayers-Fisher designed curriculum and taught environmental science to third, fourth and fifth graders in the Reading School District.
Over $62 million of the campaign’s ambitious $70 million goal has been raised, helping to increase access to higher education, refreshing existing and adding new academic programs, engaging students in new ways and fueling growth throughout the business community.
