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High School Graduates! Learn about
Dunham Scholarships
at the
Community Foundation
of the
Fox River Valley.
You can apply for college scholarships online in December and January of each year.
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Partnering for a more comfortable and safer world.
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Dunham Fund Advisory Board Stewart A. Beach
Wendy P. Hirsch
Ryan J. Maley
Janet B. Morcos
Michael J. Morcos
William B. Skoglund
Mark E. Truemper
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The Benefits of Partnership
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STEM Partnership School at
At a press conference on June 21, 2012, the Institute for Collaboration of Aurora University announced a Dunham Fund capital grant of $2.35 million to build a STEM* Partnership School on the university campus to implement an innovative and collaborative mathematics and science educational program for 3rd through 8th grade students from Aurora West 129, Aurora East 131, Indian Prairie 204, and Oswego 308 School Districts. Pending approval by the university's Board of Trustees, the new school will be named in honor of John C. Dunham, founder of the Dunham Fund. By naming the school in Dunham's memory, the institution will celebrate the role of the fund in prompting development of the STEM proposal and serving as the project's inaugural donor. The partnership school will be the culmination of a three-year planning process spearheaded and coordinated by the Institute for Collaboration that also includes an Aurora Mathematics and Science Education Center Committee made up of additional Aurora and Chicago-area collaborative government, business, school district, educational, and social service organizations and funders.
The STEM Partnership School concept was authorized by the Illinois legislature with the passage of special legislation that had bipartisan support. The STEM program addresses the documented need to promote math and science education to middle school age students with the hope of increasing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education interest at the local high schools. The program also provides for teacher development opportunities in STEM through the graduate program at Aurora University and the opportunity for the university's undergraduates majoring in education to receive enhanced classroom experiences at the partnership school.
Aurora University's Institute for Collaboration has already established a record of success. After-school programming is provided to over 1,000 middle school students in City of Aurora schools. Content-area masters' degrees funded through Illinois Mathematics and Science Partnership grants have been earned by 75 area teachers. The Illinois State Board of Education has given AU's master's degrees programs the highest rating of "transformative".
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This past summer, approximately 80 students from Aurora East, Aurora West, Indian Prairie and Oswego participated in the Amazing Science program on the AU campus.
To learn more about the John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School visit the Dunham Fund website.
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Dunham Fund announces
2012 Dunham Scholars 
Click here to see Dunham Scholars Beacon News Ad
The 2012 Dunham Scholarship recipients are John M. Gerhard, East Aurora High School, attending Purdue University; Emil Khabiboulline,IMSA, attending California Institute of Technology; Christopher G. Klimpke, Aurora Christian School, attending Western Illinois University; Jonathan D. Rios, Marmion Academy, attending Boston University; Minia Rios Gutierrez, West Aurora High School, attending University of Chicago; and Carmen VonPatterson, West Aurora High School, attending University of Illinois-Urbana.
The Dunham Scholarship Fund has been created within the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley. The Dunham scholarships are based upon academic excellence and financial need. All fields of study are considered. Special consideration is given to students who have displayed extraordinary character and outstanding initiative in overcoming personal obstacles to achieve their educational goals. In 2012, the Dunham Scholarship Fund provided six $30,000, four year scholarships to students residing in the Fund's service area and attending: Aurora Central Catholic High School, Aurora Christian School, Batavia Senior High School, East Aurora High School, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Marmion Academy, Metea Valley High School, Mooseheart High School, Rosary High School, Waubonsie Valley High School or West Aurora High School.
High School seniors may apply for 2012 scholarships from December 2012 through January 2013 on the Community Foundation website.
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