North Central State College Foundation

Opening Doors ... You're the Key

Foundation Awards IN Fund Grants

The College Foundation has awarded nine Innovation Fund (IN Fund) grants totaling more than $35,000 for creative projects of faculty and staff members. A grant committee including College Foundation trustees, staff, and local business representatives recently selected the following for the 2012 IN Fund awards:

Electronic Tour Guide System for Kehoe, submitted by Lynn Damberger

Nanotechnology Materials for the Classroom, submitted by Ken Ekegren

Diversity Council (One World, One College, One Voice), submitted by Dr. Gregg Busch and Monica Durham

Training Academy, submitted by Doug Hanuscin, Ashley Benson, Anne Siefert, Margaret Puckett, Theresa VanDorn, and Julie Korbas

Directions Graduation Celebration, submitted by Bev Walker

Mechatronics Club, submitted by Randy Storms

Anatomy Class Learning System, submitted by Ann Davies

Math Boot Camp Visit Day, submitted by Tom Prendergast

Student Referral and Academic Alert System, submitted by Cathy Craig

Campaign Encourages Alums

(DECEMBER 2011) Our Foundation is encouraging North Central State College alums to give back to the College where their career dreams became reality. Our state needs more college graduates to bolster the state's economy, and financial support to NC State now will help our community do its part.

In Ohio, more College graduates are needed to fill jobs in areas like manufacturing, business, and nursing. The percentage of college graduates who live in our state is below most states, and this is impacting Ohio business investment and job growth.

Enrollment and retention are keys to the success of our NC State students. And we're all about student success. Click on the green box to the left and learn how you can help!

Scholarship Students Speak at Foundation Luncheon

(NOVEMBER 2011) Scholarship recipients -- Alyssa Brown, Bertha Fenner Searle RN Scholarship; Kyle Keesey, Welsh News Scholarship; Dulcey Wagner, Gorman-Rupp (Corporate) Scholarship, and Michaela Zack, Regional Manufacturing Coalition Scholarship and Vetter Impact Award -- were speakers at the 12th annual College Foundation Scholarship Luncheon and Program on Oct. 28 in Kee Hall. Also on the agenda was Brittany Duewel, who has received College tutoring services for healthcare courses supported for the College Foundation by the Russell and Mary Gimbel Foundation.

More than 120 people, including donors and scholarship recipients, attended the function in Kee Hall. Decorated by event coordinator Gale Wagner with a Halloween flair, the luncheon was sponsored by Chuck Hahn of Cleveland Financial Group.

Fallerius Addition Opens for Students, Community

(NOVEMBER 2011) Fall quarter students are already taking advantage of the new $1.65 million addition on the Henry Fallerius Education Center, a Mansfield campus project completed this summer and funded by donors of the College Foundation.

The comfortable and colorful furnishings of the two-story addition are already popular with students who are reading, studying, resting, and texting between classes in the addition's Conard Commons. The common area of the addition has been named in memory of donors John and Pearl Conard.

For North Central State College, the addition provides a welcoming "front door" to the College as well as a super-sized classroom, community meeting room, and elevator system for the building.

If you'd like a tour of the new addition, please call the College Foundation office at 419-755-4753.

World-class Conference Center Planned for Kehoe

(NOVEMBER 2011) Our College is turning vision into reality, initiating plans for a full-service conference center that will add to the portfolio of regional business amenities and economic development assets.

"Currently, we cannot keep up with the demand for our College's existing classroom, meeting, and banquet spaces so being able to utilize unused space at the Kehoe Center in Shelby will be of great benefit to us," College President Donald Plotts told a community group recently. "Our new conference center will give us the ability to expand our educational offerings," he said.

The new conference center will be named the Ralph Phillips Conference Center in memory of the late Shelby, Ohio, philanthropist. The Phillips family has donated $750,000 toward the $2.5 million project. Once complete, the conference center will offer breakout rooms, trade show space, wireless Internet service, a functional business center with duplicating and fax service, and a 450-seat banquet and meeting facility for corporate training, seminars, awards' events, trade shows, and College course classes and programming.

The College Foundation is working with community leaders to raise the funds for this important regional initiative.

The North Central State College Foundation was founded 22 years ago as a non-profit corporation to raise money for student scholarships.

Today, our College Foundation's Emerald Club project raises as much as $165,000 annually for student scholarships and emergency aid, a capital campaign called Opening Doors has raised more than $4.5 million for facilities projects and entrepreneurial programming, and the College Foundation's Innovation Fund has provided grants of nearly $100,000 for the creative, forward-thinking projects of the College's faculty and staff.

Founded in 2008 and administered by the College Foundation, the North Central State College Alumni Association already has more than 200 members who are supporting the new Alumni Association Scholarship Fund.

Our mission of support for North Central State College and its faculty, staff, and students remains constant as we continue to develop new and meaningful ways to expand resources as the College grows. An investment in our College is an investment in student success and the economic well being of our area communities. It's time to open more doors, and you are the key.