At the University of Rochester, our hope is for all students to incorporate experiential learning opportunities into their Rochester education. But for some, especially students from low-income families, finding the resources to participate in these kinds of activities can be difficult.
Your gift to the Momentum Fund for experiential learning opportunities will help alleviate financial pressure for students, enabling them to gain and maintain momentum, focus on their academic success, complete their studies, and pursue and achieve their highest career objectives.
Experiential learning opportunities – such as internships, education abroad, undergraduate research, and summer courses – are particularly important for those students who are first-generation, low-income, or historically underrepresented.
Finding the resources for students to participate in these programs – on top of tuition, housing, travel, and other personal expense costs – is an additional economic burden most families cannot afford.
These experiences are essential to on time progression in their major, graduation, and to interdisciplinary learning, career development, cultural awareness, leadership and developing other professional and intellectual skills.
We need your help to provide undergraduate students with the resources and opportunities they need to have an exceptional college experience, graduate on-time, and develop the skills they will need to successfully navigate the post-graduation world.
A GIFT OF $4,000
can support a student taking a summer course to ensure they graduate on time.
GIFTS OF $1,000
have been used to support students who require housing assistance.
A GIFT OF $2,500
will provide a stipend for housing during a summer internship.
A GIFT OF $500
can provide a student the opportunity to travel home and see their family.
Your gift to the Momentum Fund for experiential learning opportunities will help alleviate financial pressure for students, enabling them to gain and maintain momentum, focus on their academic success, complete their studies, and pursue and achieve their highest career objectives.
Experiential learning opportunities – such as internships, education abroad, undergraduate research, and summer courses – are particularly important for those students who are first-generation, low-income, or historically underrepresented.
Finding the resources for students to participate in these programs – on top of tuition, housing, travel, and other personal expense costs – is an additional economic burden most families cannot afford.
These experiences are essential to on time progression in their major, graduation, and to interdisciplinary learning, career development, cultural awareness, leadership and developing other professional and intellectual skills.
We need your help to provide undergraduate students with the resources and opportunities they need to have an exceptional college experience, graduate on-time, and develop the skills they will need to successfully navigate the post-graduation world.
A GIFT OF $4,000
can support a student taking a summer course to ensure they graduate on time.
GIFTS OF $1,000
have been used to support students who require housing assistance.
A GIFT OF $2,500
will provide a stipend for housing during a summer internship.
A GIFT OF $500
can provide a student the opportunity to travel home and see their family.
“The Momentum Fund made it possible for me to take Math 143, a six-week class held over the summer. It’s also the last class I needed to finish up the required calculus sequence here. Having just taken the course, I now have space in my four-year college plan to declare two majors. I’m grateful for the help!”
– Winifred Dorlean ’24, a double major in chemistry and public health
“The funding I received for my student abroad trip was invaluable. Going to another continent has broadened my worldview and made me feel more prepared to enter any space as I was able to navigate and contribute to a space totally foreign to me.”
– Mauricio Coombs ’22, major in African American studies
“The Momentum Fund made it possible for me to take Math 143, a six-week class held over the summer. It’s also the last class I needed to finish up the required calculus sequence here. Having just taken the course, I now have space in my four-year college plan to declare two majors. I’m grateful for the help!”
– Winifred Dorlean ’24, a double major in chemistry and public health
“The funding I received for my student abroad trip was invaluable. Going to another continent has broadened my worldview and made me feel more prepared to enter any space as I was able to navigate and contribute to a space totally foreign to me.”
– Mauricio Coombs ’22, major in African American studies