School of Allied Health Sciences Funding Priorities

School of Allied Health Sciences Funding Priorities
Under the leadership of Dean Shelley Mishoe, the School of Allied Health Sciences has identified several focus areas where increased philanthropic support for the school will help solidify MCG’s mission, to discover, disseminate, and apply knowledge to improve health and reduce the burden of illness on society.

We invite you to explore the many ways to match your personal philanthropic interests to the objectives of our school, starting with our funding priorities.

Student Support
Undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships are vital to our ability to attract and retain the best and brightest students and are a top priority for many of the school’s academic programs. You may direct your gift to an existing scholarship fund or help to establish an endowed scholarship in a critical need area.

Your gift in this area will support both need-based and merit-based scholarships.

 

Faculty Support
Recruiting and retaining world-class faculty is always a priority for the School of Allied Health Sciences. Adding endowed chairs to the School of Allied Health Sciences is a goal of the school. While enrollment in the school has increased in recent years, the number of faculty has decreased by 13 percent. It is imperative that we attract and retain outstanding faculty members who excel both in teaching and research. Without an increase in our faculty, the school will be limited in class size and new program offerings. Faculty endowments allow us to recruit and hire more faculty, without taxing a shrinking budget even more.

Program Support
Philanthropic support for our programs is essential to expand current allied health programs. Increased funding of academic programs, will enable a more robust learning experience by expanding teaching and research opportunities. The school uses innovative educational approaches such as distance-learning, multimedia technology, interactive television and the Internet to make an allied health sciences education accessible to a wide range of students.
There is a real challenge in making high-quality education and training available to future health care professionals. The tuition and fees that the average student pays cover only 37 percent of the actual cost of providing their education. The remaining support comes from the generous gifts of alumni and friends, state and grants.

 

These are just a few of the critical needs areas that have been identified. If you would like more information on any of these priorities, or would like to inquire about other needs of a specific department or program, please contact Grace Miller at 706-721-1011.

Examples of some of our programs:

A program of great importance to the School of Allied Health Sciences, the Rural Health Training Program, enables students to complete clinical rotations in rural communities. The program not only enables our students to serve the most needy Georgians but also should increase the number of under-represented minorities in the health professions because of this exposure to the field. Additionally, the program hopes to make rural practice a more a more attractive career choice for our graduates.

These kinds of programs demonstrate MCG’s commitment to health care delivery as a whole and to the specific needs of the community and state.

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