Anderson Magazine | Spring 2021 | It’s Time to Celebrate!

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finding success through a diverse community: how a new Anderson University scholarship grew enrollment—and helped its campus look more like God’s kingdom Olivia Johnson had two prayers answered at once.

The answer to that prayer—and the second—was the inaugural Anderson University Connect: Diversity

The first? Becoming a student at Anderson University.

Leadership Scholarship. Johnson was one of the 58 first-year students who received the scholarship for the

“I had my heart set on Anderson University by the start of

2020-2021 academic year at AU.

my junior year of high school,” she said. “The financial burden of paying for college education on my own was

Now, about that second prayer. It is one echoed by students

incredibly stressful.”

of color on campus, and seeing it answered is a strategic focus of the University, its Board of Trust and the entire campus community:

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