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Kindness matters in a time
like this, and students throughout Ohio are stepping up to
do their part. Otterbein University and the Association of
Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio (AICUO) are
leading an effort to rally students at Ohio’s 52 independent
colleges to raise $5,000 for their fellow students in Texas.
In response to Otterbein
President Kathy Krendl’s request to support students in
Texas, Lourdes University President Mary Ann Gawelek, Ph.D,
and Lourdes University students have joined in this
partnership. “As Gray Wolves, Lourdes University is pleased
to support this important initiative. Collectively, Ohio
students can reach the goal and most importantly, show that
kindness does indeed matter,” says Gawelek.
Students at several Ohio
Independent Colleges and Universities are joining in this
effort to extend kindness and support to their Texas
counterparts who are suffering the loss of personal
property. Students are asked to determine the value of
something that is important in their day-to-day living and
then consider making an online cash donation via a Go Fund
Me account in that amount to help a Texas student replace
something they’ve lost in their residence halls, off-campus
apartments or homes.
Students can donate at can
donate at
https://www.gofundme.com/kindness-matters-ohio-students-helping-texas-students
or
http://bit.ly/2eHHKti.
AICUO President Todd Jones
said, “This is a great way for our Ohio independent college
students to reach out with the most urgent need of funding
to the Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas (ICUT),
a peer organization to AICUO.”
Otterbein President Kathy
Krendl said genuine regard, the care and the conviction to
ease someone’s burden, to advance knowledge, to nurture
civility, to build community and certainly to advance the
common good flourish on independent college campuses.
“Otterbein recently joined
a larger effort to inspire and cultivate infectious kindness
in our region,” she said. “Please join us in championing a
lesson that challenges and inspires our students to
experience for themselves that their kindness matters.”
Krendl said she hopes this
effort will offer students across Ohio an “actionable moment
that translates to the kind of help that will be necessary
after emergent needs are met.” Noting that some “painful
realities” may be ahead for Texas campus communities and
their students, Krendl said, “we can’t imagine a more
important time to model the power of shared purpose and the
value of advancing a greater good.”
For more information about
this AICUO campaign, contact Stacey Dorr of AICUO at (614)
228-2196 or
sdorr@aicuo.edu, or Jennifer Pearce of Otterbein
University at (614) 823-1285 or
jpearce@otterbein.edu.
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