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Wal-Mart Donates $10,000 for Southeast Ohio scholarships
News Release - (Columbus) – The James A. Rhodes Leadership Foundation recently received its first ten thousand dollars ($10,000) donation from Wal-Mart to provide college scholarships for residents of southeastern Ohio. The Rhodes Foundation is names after Ohio’s longest serving Governor, who is known for having implemented the Truman Commission Report which created Ohio’s Community Colleges system.

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Scholarships target 1 person at each school - Program would pay tuition at community, tech college
Toledo Blade - A new scholarship program spearheaded by the grandson of former Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes hopes to provide for one person from every high school in the state an education at a two-year community or technical college. Ric Moore, the chief executive officer of the James A. Rhodes Leadership Foundation Scholarship Fund, is carrying on his grandfather's efforts to promote college education to help Ohioans get jobs and boost the state's economy.

State Approves $10 Million for Rhodes Foundation's Scholarship Program
Colulmbus Dispatch - The governor's signature, less than 10 hours before the start of the new fiscal year, ended what many Statehouse observers called a remarkably smooth budget process. All but one lawmaker voted for the measure, which focuses on higher education and offers all homeowners 65 and older a property-tax cut.

OH Governor
Ted Strickland

"By building on my executive budget and the House budget, this proposal provides increased college affordability while also substantially increasing research and scholarship connected to creating jobs. The future of job growth in Ohio is in

investing in our regional strengths and in making sure we have the most-educated, highly skilled workforce possible. Today's proposal shows that bipartisan progress toward that future can be a reality."
-- June 4, 2007 Statement regarding Senate budget request for Higher Ed funding

Senator Austria Announces Higher Ed Roll-out
Fairborn Daily Herald- "Working to revitalize our economy, attract more quality, high-paying jobs to the state, and position Ohio has a leader in cutting-edge research and innovation, State Senator Steve Austria (R-Beavercreek) announced the roll out of a bold higher education proposal as part of the Senate's version of House Bill 119."

Chancellor Eric Fingerhut

Ohio Chancellor
Eric Fingerhut

"Ohio Chancellor Eric Fingerhut, who as a state senator often railed over the state's lack of attention to higher education, said
seeing all the state's leaders working together on the issue is exciting.

"This is the type of innovative proposal that could really leapfrog us into making our universities major drivers of the economy."
-- As reported by the Associated Press, June 4, 2007


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Wal-Mart Donates $10,000 for Southeast Ohio scholarships News Release - (Columbus) – The James A. Rhodes Leadership Foundation recently received its first ten thousand dollars ($10,000) donation from Wal-Mart to provide college scholarships for residents of southeastern Ohio. The Rhodes Foundation is names after Ohio’s longest serving Governor, who is known for having implemented the Truman Commission Report which created Ohio’s Community Colleges system.
Scholarships target 1 person at each school - Program would pay tuition at community, tech college Toledo Blade - A new scholarship program spearheaded by the grandson of former Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes hopes to provide for one person from every high school in the state an education at a two-year community or technical college. Ric Moore, the chief executive officer of the James A. Rhodes Leadership Foundation Scholarship Fund, is carrying on his grandfather's efforts to promote college education to help Ohioans get jobs and boost the state's economy. State Approves $10 Million for Rhodes Foundation's Scholarship Program Colulmbus Dispatch - The governor's signature, less than 10 hours before the start of the new fiscal year, ended what many Statehouse observers called a remarkably smooth budget process. All but one lawmaker voted for the measure, which focuses on higher education and offers all homeowners 65 and older a property-tax cut.		OH Governor Ted Strickland "By building on my executive budget and the House budget, this proposal provides increased college affordability while also substantially increasing research and scholarship connected to creating jobs. The future of job growth in Ohio is in
	investing in our regional strengths and in making sure we have the most-educated, highly skilled workforce possible. Today's proposal shows that bipartisan progress toward that future can be a reality." -- June 4, 2007 Statement regarding Senate budget request for Higher Ed funding
Senator Austria Announces Higher Ed Roll-out Fairborn Daily Herald- "Working to revitalize our economy, attract more quality, high-paying jobs to the state, and position Ohio has a leader in cutting-edge research and innovation, State Senator Steve Austria (R-Beavercreek) announced the roll out of a bold higher education proposal as part of the Senate's version of House Bill 119."		Ohio Chancellor Eric Fingerhut "Ohio Chancellor Eric Fingerhut, who as a state senator often railed over the state's lack of attention to higher education, said seeing all the state's leaders working together on the issue is exciting.
	***"This is the type of* innovative proposal that could really leapfrog us into making our universities major drivers of the economy." -- As reported by the Associated Press**, June 4, 2007
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