Washburn Students Award Aleshire Grants
For the past 11 years, Washburn students enrolled in LE 300 (Leadership Skills Development) have spent a semester working in this applied learning course with UWGT staff and donors Joe and Janet Aleshire, who again this year supplied $10,000 of grant funding. Students explore the process of granting money by writing and issuing a Request for Proposals, evaluating proposed programs and presenting recommendations to the United Way board of directors. On Friday, December 9, the students presented checks to this year’s three successful nonprofit grantees - Capper Foundation, Kansas Children’s Discovery Center and Kansas Children’s Service League.
The Fall 2022 LE 300 students are taught by Lauran Edelman, Director of Leadership Institute and Lecturer:
- Mia Albert – Junior political science major from Wichita
- Kayla Beyer – Junior psychology major from Ogden
- Cameron Billquist – Sophomore legal studies major from Leavenworth
- Philip Canady – Senior business major from Topeka
- Chloe Chaffin – Junior political science and secondary English education major from Olathe
- Trinity Cooper – Senior marketing major from Wichita
- Graycn Evans – Senior finance/marketing major from Manhattan
- Abby Fette – Junior pre-med major from Kansas City
- Ellynor George – Sophomore secondary education/math major from Topeka
- Dyan Grospitch – Junior Sociology major from Topeka
- Hannah Mumpower – Junior radiologic technology/medical imaging major from Maple Hill
- Lily Thompson – Junior psychology major from Lawrence
Learn more about the Washburn University Leadership Institute at https://www.washburn.edu/academics/leadership-institute/index.html.