Hormel Foundation Wins ACTE Business-Education Partnership Award
Released at 3:21 pm on Thursday, October 20, 2022
The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) and its board of directors announced The Hormel Foundation as the winner of the ACTE Business-Education Partnership Award.
The Business-Education Partnership Award honors the following contributions and achievements: Schools and companies that help develop and sustain partnerships that support quality careers and technical education (CTE).
The Hormel Foundation launched the Hormel Foundation Austin Assurance Scholarship Program in 2019. Since its inception, 545 students have received scholarships from Riverland Community College in Austin, Minnesota in partnership with Austin High School and Pacelli Catholic High School.
This scholarship provides two years of community college education to graduates of these two high schools at RCC. The Gap Scholarship aims to remove financial barriers for students seeking higher education and to encourage underserved people to continue their education.
Scholarships train our region’s future workforce and help students achieve their educational and career goals to support themselves and their families.
The Hormel Foundation is also committed to supporting RCC’s agricultural and food science programs. Prior to Foundation support, Riverland had one of the largest industries in the region and the state as a whole, with more than half a million people working in the agricultural and food sectors. There were no agricultural or food science programs on campus other than his FBM program. food science.
Students who wanted to major in agriculture or food science had no choice in Riverland and had to go to faraway colleges to complete their degrees. With initial support and encouragement from the Hormel Foundation, Riverland has created a new degree in Agricultural and Food Science and Technology and has once again received approval from the State of Minnesota to offer an Agricultural and Food Science major.
The first course started in 2016 with just a few students. Enrollments in the Ag and Food Science program have increased to 51 students in the fall of 2020, and more than 450 students are enrolled in the Farm Business Management program, which covers southeastern Minnesota to the Mississippi River. increase.
The foundation has provided the university with more than $2.5 million to build a world-class agricultural academic center in the Austin West Building, including labs, classrooms, collaboration and learning spaces. The Hormel Foundation is currently initiating partnerships with the University of Minnesota and Riverland Community College to develop America’s Future Agriculture in Minnesota, including her $250 million state-of-the-art research facility in More County, Minnesota. developing research.
Riverland Dean Adenuga Atewologun said: “The Hormel Foundation’s investment in education and support for agriculture and food science programs through the Hormel Foundation Austin Guaranteed Scholarships will impact generations of students and help local employers find highly skilled and competent individuals. It helps us secure a healthy workforce.”
The Hormel Foundation will be honored along with other national ACTE Award winners at the annual ACTE Awards Gala on November 30th at 7pm. For more information on the Excellence Awards and Awards Gala, visit his website at: http://www.acteonline.org/awards.
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