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Two students receive support to serve during alternative spring break

Two students were recently named recipients of a Marshall Alternative Service Experience Scholarship: Yaqueline Yañez of William Peace University and DaQuane Cherry of Central Piedmont Community College.

campus_compact-croppedEach student received a $250 award to help fund their participation in an upcoming alternative break service trip. Both Yañez and Cherry were recognized at the CSNAP Student Conference, held last month at UNC Asheville.

The alternative break scholarship is a gift of Aaron Marshall, who created the program in partnership with NC Campus Compact in 2015. Marshall is a graduate of Western Carolina University, where he took part in nine alternative break service trips. He was also a recipient of the Compact’s Community Impact Award and the 2014 Barnhill Civic Trailblazer Award. Believing in the power of the alternative break experience as well as the associated leadership opportunities, Marshall created the scholarship to “pay it forward” so other college students could have similar experiences.

The scholarship was first awarded in 2015 to UNC Pembroke’s Madison Wilcox. Read about Madison’s service trip experience.

Marshall Scholarship recipients are selected from the pool of Community Impact Award winners. (Both Cherry and Yañez were Impact Award recipients for their respective schools this year.) Preference is given to students receiving federal financial aid or who are “military-affiliated.” The Compact will offer the program again in 2017, with plans to open the applicant pool to eligible CSNAP Conference participants.

Marshall is still involved in service as an active volunteer with the disaster relief organization Team Rubicon.

 

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