A vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others, and in order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. Which is what Bernie Machen has taught us. Machen had a vision to support low-income students who are first in their families to attend college. Machen fulfilled that vision be creating a scholarship, The Machen Florida Opportunity Scholarship (MFOS), for the first generation college students. The MFOS scholarship have opened the doors and eyes for hundreds of students today.
First-generation students tend to come from working class families of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Typically, the first-generation students may start at a community college, attend college part-time, live off-campus or with family or relatives. Moreover, they delay entering college after high-school graduation, or work full-time while they are enrolled due to a lack of financial income and the having to pay for their college funds. While certainly engaged in an exciting yet busy college experience, some first-generation college students receive less support from their families while attending college. Their families may not understand the demands of college work. Students may also feel pressured …show more content…
To date, the Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Program has supported more than 3,200 students in the nine years since the program’s inception. If it was not for this scholarship I would not be sitting in this seat I am today as stress free as I am. Words cannot describe the feelings and experience I have had and still are making because of this scholarship. Because of Machen’s vision I am here today and I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank
First-generation students tend to come from working class families of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Typically, the first-generation students may start at a community college, attend college part-time, live off-campus or with family or relatives. Moreover, they delay entering college after high-school graduation, or work full-time while they are enrolled due to a lack of financial income and the having to pay for their college funds. While certainly engaged in an exciting yet busy college experience, some first-generation college students receive less support from their families while attending college. Their families may not understand the demands of college work. Students may also feel pressured …show more content…
To date, the Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Program has supported more than 3,200 students in the nine years since the program’s inception. If it was not for this scholarship I would not be sitting in this seat I am today as stress free as I am. Words cannot describe the feelings and experience I have had and still are making because of this scholarship. Because of Machen’s vision I am here today and I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank