A lucky few Canadian students at the University of Winnipeg are about to get some significant help paying for school in the future, thanks to a new $1 million scholarship fund.
At a news conference held Monday morning, officials from the University of Winnipeg announced the creation of the Garnet Kyle Scholarship as the result of a $500,000 private donation from the late Garnet Kyle, a lifelong resident of Dominion City and councilor of the rural municipality of Franklin.
“Garnet was a visionary and entrepreneurial,” Taras Sokolyk, Kyle’s lifelong friend said in a recent news release, “He was always ahead of his time.”
That donation has been matched through the Manitoba Scholarship Bursary Initiative for a total of $1 million.
The scholarship, worth $40,000, will be the largest offered to a Canadian student at the University of Winnipeg, and will be administered as $10,000 per year of study to help cover the cost of tuition, books, accommodation and meal plan.
The award will support rural students from Dominion City and the surrounding region who wish to pursue undergraduate or graduate study at the university. Students must have a Grade 12 average of 90 per cent or a GPA of 4.0 or higher to apply for graduate studies.
“The Garnet Kyle Scholarship recognizers that some of our best and brightest minds and some of our most entrepreneurial citizens come from small towns and tight-knit communities, where imagination and resilience is fostered,” said Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.
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