Paying it forward » The You Are Union campaign, which concludes this year, has created a multitude of opportunities for this generation of students and others to come. This is the third and final installment of Your UNION Now, a special insert celebrating the impact of the You Are Union campaign. In previous installments, we chronicled the campaign’s transformation of academic life and its role in the emergence of a strong and unique endeavor to unite living and learning. This issue focuses on students and on the opportunities they have enjoyed at Union, thanks to those who have come before them.
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Your Union Now | Installment 3
President Stephen C. Ainlay, speaking at a recent luncheon of scholarship donors and recipients, said, “People often ask me, ‘What is the business model for higher education?’ This is all about opportunity, about paying it forward. The opportunity given to one generation creates an obligation to give back. This is how it goes . . . we pay it forward.” In the pages that follow, we hear from students and donors about opportunity and obligation—and the difference both can make in one’s life.