Your gift at work
UniSA would like to acknowledge the broad range of gifts we receive from corporate and individual donors. Some of the unique programs established because of these generous gifts are detailed below.
- Mutual Community
- Codan 50th Anniversary Engineering Scholarship
- Sheila Bailey Early Childhood Education Prize
- Annette and Leon Davis Scholarships
Business gets behind UniSA Students
Eric Granger, Head of Sales SA/NT/WA for Mutual Community talks about the motivation for Mutual Community to support six scholarship and grant schemes at UniSA in 2009.
Celebrating
50 years
Codan Limited, a highly regarded South Australian engineering company,
celebrated its 50th birthday this year by sponsoring the Codan 50th
Anniversary Engineering Scholarship. Available to final year and Honours
students from the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the
scholarship is valued at $10,000 and is designed to assist the recipient
complete their undergraduate program.
The inaugural winner of the scholarship is Brendon Hampton who is finishing
a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Mechatronic) with Honours. Brendon
was delighted to accept his award from Allan Gobolos, Codan's General
Manager, Business Development at the School's recent Prizes and Awards
Ceremony.
"Receiving the scholarship is both highly rewarding and encouraging.
Studying at university can be very stressful and time-consuming, so being
given a scholarship for your work and contributions is an excellent
confidence boost." said Brendon. "It will assist me in achieving my goals
and ambitions when I leave university, as well as allowing me to concentrate
on my final year studies. It's excellent that Codan, a successful South
Australian electronics company, can see the benefits in supporting our
School."
A
commitment to education - donors in the workplace
While working with alumni and donors at UniSA, the Development Office's
own Sheila Bailey has quietly been a regular donor to the University since
1999. Sheila has seen the need for extra encouragement of rural students to
assist them with the transition to university life and so in 2008 she
decided to establish the Sheila Bailey Early Childhood Education Prize. This
prize is designed to help students with the financial costs of moving away
from their homes to study.
Having grown up in the regional South Australian town of Whyalla, Sheila
knows first hand how many talented students forgo tertiary education due to
the financial constraints of relocating to the city.
"As a young woman I was interested in studying teaching, but the program
wasn't offered in Whyalla and the financial costs of moving to Adelaide
presented too much of a barrier for me at the time," says Sheila. "With my
interest in teaching and through the influence of my mother's passion for
local playgroups and the Mobile Toy Library, I am keen to assist students in
the area of Early Childhood."
Sheila hopes her prize will alleviate some of the hurdles to study for young
people living in rural or remote areas of South Australia. Valued at $1,000,
the prize will be awarded each year to an eligible South Australian student
whose family home is in a rural, remote or isolated area of the state and
who is enrolled in the second year of the Bachelor of Early Childhood
Education (MBCE) program. The prize will be awarded on the basis of program
grade point average on completion of the first year of the program.
The
Annette and Leon Davis Scholarships
Successful Port Pirie couple Dr Leon Davis AO and Annette Davis have decided to give something back to their home town by establishing two significant scholarships to study at the University of South Australia. The couple, who were born in Port Pirie, are hoping their example will encourage other benefactors to come forward to support young rural and regional South Australians who want to continue on to higher education.
The Annette and Leon Davis Scholarships are open to Port Pirie school-leavers enrolled full-time in an undergraduate degree program at UniSA. The scholarship is valued at $12,000 for the first year and subsequent payments of $11,000 a year for the duration of the program to a maximum of four years.
The inaugural 2009 scholarship recipient is Ms Krichelle Oaklands,17, a graduate from St Mark's College, Port Pirie. Krichelle commenced a Bachelor of Health Science in 2009 and is delighted to be awarded the scholarship to relieve the pressures of relocating to Adelaide and allow her the opportunity to follow her dream of studying Medical Radiation at UniSA.
Career dream on track for Port Pirie scholarship student, Krichelle Oaklands.