Why not build a college graduate today?

Why not assist in training a social worker who will multiply your effort by helping hundreds or thousands tomorrow? Why not put a little of the “polish” on a new generation of law enforcement graduates? Why not join the “construction project” of making new college graduates that Liberal Arts faculty and staff all participate in every day, every semester, every year?

You can do that. You can make a difference in the life of a Liberal Arts student at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.

Your gift to the Liberal Arts Scholarship Fund might provide the textbooks for a young person on the way to a career in public administration. Your gift might help with tuition for a budding journalist. Your gift might cover the fees—those “extra costs”—that were making it so hard for that working parent to finish the last few hours in a Computer Graphics program. Your gift—of $10, or $100, or $1000—your assistance, your help at a crucial moment—might provide that extra semester that opens the door to seminary, or makes it possible for a young debater to come back the next semester to polish those skills.

Every day, every semester, every year, your gift to the Liberal Arts Scholarship Fund will make a difference to some student’s future. Because scholarship funds are invested to protect the principal, while the interest income generated is provided for scholarships, your gift that touches a young student’s life next year will in a decade still be touching student lives, and even more so as the years pass by. So your gift to the Scholarship Fund will make a difference next year, and the year after that, and all the years after that.

With each gift, you touch lives throughout the future. Why not start today? You can contribute to the Liberal Arts Scholarship Funds in three ways:

• You can contact Stuart Parkerson, Director of Annual Support, or Glenda Erwin, Interim Vice Chancellor for Development, with the LSUS Development Office at 318-797-5257 for information on how to give to the College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Fund.

• Or you go to the LSUS Foundation website at http://www.lsus.edu/foundation. The website provides a wealth of information on ways to contribute to the University through the Foundation, which is the fundraising arm for LSUS.

• Or you can get in touch with Merrell Knighten, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, at (318) 797-5371 or by email at mknighte@lsus.edu. He will be delighted to meet with you to discuss your interest in building student futures in the College of Liberal Arts.