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The Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship Program at Marquette University will award up to four full-ride academic scholarships annually including full tuition, housing and fees.
Marquette University is honoring its late president, Michael Lovell, with a scholarship program.
Marquette plans to launch the Michael R. Lovell Presidential Scholarship Program in the fall 2025 semester, the school announced Thursday. The program will award up to four full-ride academic scholarships annually including full tuition, housing and fees. When the program is in full effect — which requires additional fundraising — Marquette would host up to 16 Lovell Scholar recipients on campus at a time.
“President Lovell embodied a servant’s heart, a growth mindset and what it means to constantly strive for excellence. He always wanted to be the best version of himself and to help others become the best version of themselves as well,” University President Kimo Ah Yun said in the release. “I know that our Marquette family will join me in feeling great joy knowing his name and legacy will live on in exceptional, service-oriented scholars.”
The program was developed in partnership with the Lovell family, who contributed a gift toward the scholarship, as well as a $5 million gift from alumni couple Chris and Mary Swift, which bolstered the program into a cohort model.
“Dr. Michael Lovell exemplified the very best of Marquette University, and his legacy of servant leadership will inspire and ground a generation of new leaders,” Chris and Mary Swift said in a statement. “We are proud that the Lovell Scholars program will benefit exceptional students who demonstrate the same values he lived by, and continue Marquette’s grand tradition of excellence, faith, leadership and service.”
This is the most recent of honors for the late president, who passed last June three years after he was diagnosed with sarcoma. The university also opened the LOVELLSTRONG Center for Student Well-Being at the Wellness + Helfaer Recreation Facility in January. The 11,000-square-foot center provides several services for Marquette students, with spaces ranging from counseling to spirituality and meditation.
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