Last fall, North Park welcomed its first group of Promise Scholars to campus. The twenty-five freshmen hail from across the country and were chosen based on their affiliation with an Evangelical Covenant Church, their high academic achievement, or their interest in pursuing a degree in nursing, health sciences, or STEM-related fields.
Prior to being selected, the students wrote essays about how they planned to pursue lives of significance and service, a signature North Park distinctive. The scholarships, which range from a total of $10,000 to $80,000 over four years, are funded by individual donors.
“These students represent both the present and the future of North Park,” says Owen Youngman C’75, Chair of the Board of Trustees. “I was thrilled to meet and talk with five of them recently at a Board meeting. It’s a privilege to have such bright, talented students join our campus family, and we look forward to what they will do in the world upon graduation.”
Some of the recipients of the inaugural North Park Promise Scholarships are Gabrielle Rigg, a politics and government/history double major from Escalon, Calif.; Joel Beyar, a criminal justice major who grew up in Russia and Eastern Europe as the son of missionaries; Brian Chindblom of Palatine, Ill., who is planning to major in secondary education; Annika Sager, a marketing major from Farmington, Conn.; and Tyler Banks, a business major from Littleton, Colo.