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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 18:08 |
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 Applications are now available for Iowa's 2010 Matthew Shepard Scholarship Program honoring openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Iowa high school seniors.
Gold Eagle Awards are valued at $35,000 over four years and pay full tuition, books and fees at one of Iowa's three state universities: Iowa State University, the University of Northern Iowa or the University of Iowa. Silver Eagle Awards are an initial award of $500 that ay grow to a value of $7,000 may be used at any college or university in the United States.
All scholarships are renewable annually for up to four years upon evidence of academic achievement and continued service to the LGBT Community.
To date, the Matthew Shepard Scholarship Program has committed over one million dollars in honoring one hundred and five Iowans from across the state.
Scholarships are presented in each student's high school awards assembly, and at a statewide awards dinner in Des Moines on June 4, 2010.
Iowa's Matthew Shepard Scholarship Program is named in the memory of Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming was brutally murdered ten years ago, because he was gay.
The Scholarship Program is underwritten and awarded by the Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation.
Additional information about the scholarship program and application materials are available at www.eychanerfoundation.org. Tickets for the scholarship awards dinner go on sale March 1, 2010. |
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Monday, 30 November 2009 21:41 |
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Join us this Saturday evening as we celebrate with Iowa’s Matthew Shepard Scholars the conclusion of fall classes and the tenth anniversary of Iowa’s Matthew Shepard Scholarship Program in the tropical Des Moines Botanical Center!
UNI Professor Dr. Nicholas Pace will talk about his new book, featuring Matthew Shepard Scholars, The Principal’s Challenge: Learning from Gay and Lesbian Students.
Help us in continuing to ensure a positive environment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth in Iowa!
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Suggested minimum donation $50
Giving Levels
Host $250 Supporter $100 Individual $50
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Make checks payable to Eychaner Foundation, PO Box 1797, Des Moines, Iowa 50305.
The Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. Your donation is tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 12:38 |
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 Join us Saturday, December 5th at the Des Moines Botanical Center for Friends, Hors d'œuvres and Holiday Cheer at Winter Break!
Celebrate with Iowa’s Matthew Shepard Scholars the conclusion of fall classes and the tenth anniversary of Iowa’s Matthew Shepard Scholarship Program.
UNI Professor Dr. Nicholas Pace will talk about his new book, featuring Matthew Shepard Scholars, The Principal’s Challenge: Learning from Gay and Lesbian Students.
Help us in continuing to ensure a positive environment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth in Iowa! |
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 12:02 |
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University of Northern Iowa Professor Dr. Nicholas Pace has published The Principal’s Challenge Learning from Gay and Lesbian Students. The book draws from interviews with Iowa's Matthew Shepard Scholarship recipients.
 This unique book presents lessons a straight principal-turned-professor has learned through personal experience and research with gay and lesbian high school students. It begins with a young principal acknowledging that he, nor his administrative education program, had given any thought to issues surrounding students’ sexual orientation. However, when a senior in his tiny rural high school came out, the principal started down an unexpected path that would change his outlook on school leadership—and transform his practice.
Presented in eight unique stories in students’ own words, we experience their challenges, fears, and triumphs—and see how their schools and the people in them both helped and hurt. Through their poignant, honest, familiar, and often surprising stories, we see how these eight students navigate what Unks (2003, p. 323) calls “the most homophobic institutions in American society.”
Their stories also reveal an unexpected, yet vital lesson for educators, policy makers, and all those concerned with meeting students’ needs—that being gay or lesbian in high school does not automatically lead to bad outcomes. The students’ firsthand accounts, along with lessons learned by the once apprehensive principal, show that there is a much more positive, optimistic, and seldom-told story.
The book challenges practicing and aspiring school leaders to:
- Move beyond what we think we know about gay and lesbian students and see them as unique people with strengths and struggles, gifts and challenges.
- Examine the unique context of their schools and see how one size solution doesn’t fit all.
- Understand agency, agendas, and how gay-straight alliances can benefit all students.
- Summon the courage to transform our mission statements from slogans and live them everyday.
The Principal’s Challenge Learning from Gay and Lesbian Students is available online from Information Age Publishing. |
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Friday, 02 October 2009 12:40 |
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 The Eychaner Foundation is proud to sponsor The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, a production of Stagewest and the Des Moines Playhouse.
In June 2008, members of Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie, Wyoming to explore how the town had changed in the ten years since Matthew Shepard's murder. What they found defied their expectations. The result is a new play about how we construct our own history. This is the continuing story of an American Town.
Tickets are Free. Now available in person at the Des Moines Playhouse ticket office. Limit of four per person. You must arrive by 6:45 PM on October 12 to guarantee a seat. General admission seating. Donations will be accepted for Iowa's Matthew Shepard Scholarship Program. |
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