Vice Admiral John H. Fetterman Maritime Museum and Research Center
Envisioned as part of the waterfront Community Maritime Park project in historic Pensacola, the Vice Admiral John H. Fetterman State of Florida Maritime Museum and Research Center will serve as a signature and research facility for the State of Florida.
In this 50,000 square foot museum, topical displays will engage visitors for all ages in understanding how discoveries, events and commerce shaped our understanding of history and helped define the development of Florida. Visitors will learn, often through hands-on experiences, about underwater shipwrecks, maritime navigation, shipping, railroads, the timber industry and naval history.
The Maritime Museum will also house maritime-related research facilities in areas such as public history, underwater archaeology, marine biology and environmental science. The design of the facility will enable visitors to observe and participate in aspects of this research. (learn more)
The Theodore R. and Vivian M. Johnson Scholarship Foundation has partnered with the University of West Florida and challenged UWF to increase both endowment and annual scholarship support for students with financial need. With this challenge, comes a significant commitment from both the Johnson Scholarship Foundation and the University of West Florida.
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For the endowment challenge gift, the Johnson Scholarship Foundation has pledged $600,000 and is challenging UWF to raise $1 million for need-based scholarship endowments over the next five years.
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For the annual gift challenge, the Johnson Scholarship Foundation has pledged $100,000, over five years, to challenge others to support First Generation Scholarships at UWF. Gifts to the First Generation Scholarship are also currently matched 100% by the State of Florida First Generation Matching Grant Program. The ARGO
Scholars Program is a partnership between UWF and Pensacola High School. The
program will provide opportunities for motivated Pensacola High School students
who have significant financial or other barriers, to succeed through scholarship
support, mentoring, leadership development and broadening cultural experiences.
Emerald
Coast Scholarship Fund UWF
students from Okaloosa County will benefit from new and additional
opportunities through the Combs School UWF/Okaloosa County School District (OCSD)
partnership. This unique agreement includes UWF’s commitment to provide $50,000
in scholarships each year for the next ten years. According to the Okaloosa
County School District, only 50% of their graduates make a decision to work
towards an advanced degree.
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Construction
Technology Institute:
Offers University of West
Florida engineering credits and Okaloosa Walton College credits and is located
at the Okaloosa Applied Technology Center Common Campus
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Engineering
Institute: Offers
pre-engineering courses from the University of West Florida and is located at
Choctawhatchee High School
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Information
Technology (IT) Institute:
Offers certificates from
Microsoft, Cisco, Adobe and Macromedia and is located at Niceville High School
Our goal is to raise $100,000 by June 30, 2006 and $500,000
by 2010.
The Challenge:
The Johnson Scholarship Foundation has pledged $700,000, over five years, to the UWF Foundation as a two-part challenge gift to support need-based scholarships at the University of West Florida. The challenge supports both endowment and annual scholarships.
The program will begin in the fall of 2006 with the selection of 10th
grade students. Ultimately, 12 students at Pensacola High School will enroll in
the program on an annual basis. When the program is fully funded, ARGO Scholars
who choose to attend UWF will receive financial support for tuition, room,
board, book expenses and a study-abroad experience. While at UWF, ARGO Scholars
will support the program by serving as mentors or in another serve capacity at
Pensacola High School.
Pensacola High School was identified by the federal government
as a Title One school, because it serves students from some of the most
financially and personally challenging environments in Escambia County, Fla.
The student body is 57 percent minority and also includes more than 400 students
participating in the International Baccalaureate Program. In 2005, the school
was ranked by Newsweek as eighth in the national for offering challenging
courses at the high school level.
UWF
is seeking support for a $1 million dollar endowment fund that will sustain the
ARGO Scholars program in perpetuity.
Through the Combs Scholarship Fund, UWF and the OCSD hope to increase the
percentage of students making the decision to pursue a higher education degree.
Scholarship preference will be given to graduates of the CHOICE institutes.
CHOICE is an innovative, award-winning program that allows students to earn high
school credit, college credit and professional industry certification, all at
the same time and at no cost to the student. UWF is the higher education partner
for the following institutes:
