Nancy Friesen Student Teaching Scholarship Fund
Your gift to the Nancy Friesen Student Teaching Scholarship Fund ensures meaningful opportunities for students with financial constraints who are passionate about completing their practicum experience in Chicago while also suportting the Chicago Center’s broader mission of experiential education.
The Nancy Friesen Student Teaching Scholarship Fund provides essential financial support for student teachers with demonstrated need who are pursuing their teaching practicum through The Chicago Center. This scholarship fund ensures that future educators, regardless of financial circumstances, can gain critical experience in diverse urban classrooms.
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Why Support This Fund?
Teaching in an urban environment provides unique, real-world challenges and opportunities. Through the Nancy Friesen Student Teaching Scholarship, recipients will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in classrooms where they’ll encounter students from varied cultural, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds. This experience is invaluable, as it equips aspiring teachers to engage, communicate, and educate effectively across differences, cultivating inclusive learning environments that meet the needs of every student.
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This scholarship honors Nancy Friesen, a champion curiosity, critical thinking, and experiential education. By supporting this fund, you’re supporting the work of the Chicago Center and helping to build the next generation of educators who will carry forward her passion and dedication.​
$15,000
Goal amount to raise to provide the next cohort of student teachers with a scholarship.
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"Teaching is a service. You are serving communities. You are serving a school. You are serving students and parents. When I show up as a teacher every day, I try to be mindful of how my actions and words affect the kids and how that ripples out into their days, into their families.”
Maggie Walker, SP'24, Lawrence University
Ways to Give
There are many ways to give—and even more reasons to give. Your gifts are an investment in our students, academics, and our city and society. End each gift makes an immediate and lasting impact. Even more, your contributions are tax-deductible, and matching gifts may even double your gift to the Chicago Center.