YOU\u2019RE INVITED TO LEARN MORE
\n<\/strong>Thursday, February 24, 2022 | 9:30 a.m. \u2013 10:30 a.m.
\nPolk State Winter Haven Campus | 999 Ave. H N.E., Winter Haven
\nLearning Resources Building (WLR) | Third Floor Library<\/p>\nSpeakers will include:
\nPolk State President Angela Garcia Falconetti
\nMiracle Toyota Owner Mike Murphy
\nStudent Representative<\/p>\n
\u201cPolk State is incredibly grateful for Miracle Toyota\u2019s commitment to our community and investment in quality higher education,\u201d Polk State President Angela Garcia Falconetti. \u201cHigher education often serves as the best opportunity for social and economic mobility; however, research has shown that minority students often do not have as many resources to pay for college. Support like Miracle Toyota\u2019s helps to close that gap and fund student success.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Polk State Foundation awards approximately $1 million in student scholarships annually.<\/p>\n
Miracle Toyota donates a percentage of its monthly revenue to local charities. Miracle Toyota has dedicated a percentage of its revenues in February over the next five years to this Polk State Foundation endowed scholarship fund.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe that education helps people become better citizens by increasing their chances of getting higher paying jobs, which leads to growth and stability. By providing Polk State College with resources to help close the wealth gap in our community, we can shape a better society one person at a time,\u201d Miracle Toyota Owner Mike Murphy said.<\/p>\n
Miracle Toyota\u2019s support for minority students comes on the cusp of Polk State\u2019s student demographics becoming majority minority: 26 percent Hispanic, 17 percent Black, 48 percent White, and 9 percent other minorities.<\/p>\n
Individuals who are interested in donating to the Polk State Foundation can visit\u00a0foundation.polk.edu.<\/p>\n
About Polk State College<\/strong><\/p>\nLocated in Winter Haven, Florida, and established in 1964, Polk State College is a multi-campus institution serving more than 14,000 students with Bachelor of Applied Science, Bachelor of Science, Associate in Arts, and Associate in Science degrees, as well as 9,000 individuals in a wide range of certificate and workforce training programs. The College also operates three charter high schools.<\/p>\n
Polk State\u2019s advantages include small class sizes; hands-on learning; dedicated faculty; day and night classes; online options; affordable tuition; excellent financial aid; and a diverse community and vibrant student life, including fine arts opportunities, clubs, and intercollegiate athletics.<\/p>\n
About Murphy Auto Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong>Murphy Auto Group has been in the new and used automotive franchised business since 1979 and have had several dealerships in GA, SC, FL. Murphy Auto Group is well known for its philanthropic efforts and has a long history of supporting community initiatives, military organizations, humanitarian missions, higher learning institutions, young initiatives and host a variety of donations throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miracle Toyota has established an endowed scholarship fund to provide support for Black students at Polk State College. The Haines City dealership and Polk County\u2019s largest-serving higher education institution are… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2418],"class_list":["post-20299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-miracle-toyota-establishes-endowed-scholarship-at-polk-state-college"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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