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Many people have given generously of their time and resources, but few have invested as much of their heart and hands as the Faros.

Both attended Roberts, where they met, graduated in 1973 and married a year later. Mike later came back to Roberts and taught PE courses, coached many different sports teams, and eventually became Director of 体育运动. 贝弗是老人. APN at Golisano Children’s Hospital, followed by time spent as program coordinator for the Nurse Family Partnership Program at the Monroe County Health Department. Both Mike and Bev are now enjoying retired life.

The Faros are faithful members of the 罗伯茨圆. Mike describes their generosity as “Just part of being in a tight-knit community of 朋友, and believing in Christian Education.” Wherever the Faros tread, they see needs, and offer to meet them. They find joy in the lifestyle of giving. Mike and Bev have found Roberts Wesleyan College a solid base for 朋友hips, 敬拜, and activities for many years.

他们说, “We don’t think our generosity is exemplary, just consistent to enable future opportunities.”

You can join the Faros by 制作礼物 at the 罗伯茨圆 level and helping make future opportunities possible for our students!

It might surprise people to know that we have many parents of current Roberts students making gifts and 支持ing different areas of the College while their child is earning their degree. A common misconception is that tuition dollars cover the cost of an education. 事实是, due to the scholarships and 支持 given to 100% of our students, we must make up that difference with gifts from our alumni, 朋友, 教师, 工作人员, 过去的父母和父母!

The Wares are just one example of generous parents who believe giving to the College will enhance their daughter’s experience while she is at Roberts. 作为家长, it can seem counterintuitive to be asked to give to a college in addition to paying tuition and other expenses. Our daughter was blessed to receive significant 支持 from Roberts which allowed us to think about how we could use some funds to invest in providing opportunities to enrich the academic, 社会, and most importantly spiritual environment in which she is making the transition from adolescence to adulthood. We are glad to be able to be a small part of helping students learn not just what God is calling them to do, but who He is calling them to be.”

We are grateful for people like Kevin and Shellie who choose to 支持 the College in this way! You can join them by 制作礼物 to any of our multiple funds to help make a Roberts education possible for our students!

在2017年的夏天, Roberts Wesleyan College launched our very first Academic Summer Camps for high school students on our campus. 这一周的, overnight camps allowed students to participate in hands-on academic sessions taught by Roberts 教师 during the day and 社会 events giving them opportunities to explore Rochester in the evening.

These camps provide opportunities for high school students, 和卡里尔·温斯基, a member of the Roberts Wesleyan College Board of Trustee, saw our summer camps as the perfect way to build a connection between Roberts Wesleyan College and the Guadalupe Center. 位于伊莫卡利, FL, an impoverished community near Naples, the Guadalupe Center’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty through education. One of their three programs, 导师队, focuses on preparing high school students for higher education.

和卡里尔的关系, we were able to present our summer camp programs to the students at the Guadalupe Center. In the summer of 2019, thirteen students from the Guadalupe Center attended our summer programs! That was just the start of our partnership with the Guadalupe Center. For our summer camps in 2020, we were prepared to welcome even more students from the Guadalupe Center. 然而, when our summer camps were cancelled, we found an alternative way to connect with these students. 2020年夏天, 28 rising seniors from the Guadalupe Center, took an online summer class from Roberts Wesleyan College. 2021年夏天, 美高梅mgm平台的营地看起来不一样, but the Guadalupe Center plans to send a group of students and we have 16 students enrolled in our online summer camps.

The opportunities that students from the Guadalupe Center have had with Roberts have shown them the difference a Roberts education makes, and they want to learn more. 2020年秋天, we had our first group of students from the Guadalupe Center apply to Roberts Wesleyan College. These students received federal grants and loans, scholarships from the Guadalupe Center, and scholarships and grants from Roberts Wesleyan College. 然而, the students still had a financial gap. 为了满足这种需求, Gerry 和卡里尔·温斯基 established the Roberts Wesleyan College Guadalupe Center Scholarship. As we begin to grow and steward this scholarship, we have received additional funding from the Karpus Foundation and other generous donors.

Our first Roberts Wesleyan College Guadalupe Center Scholarship recipient, 阿尔伯塔省Morales-Gonzales, 夏令营的校友, has completed her first year at Roberts. Alberta is the first in her family to graduate from high school and the first in her family to attend college. She is thriving here at Roberts! Alberta is going to be joined by six additional students from the Guadalupe Center this coming fall! As this partnership continues to grow, we invite you to be a part of transforming these students' lives.

Alberta Morales-Gonzalez is our first Roberts student from the Guadalupe Center. She has this to say: “Everyone is so nice at Roberts. One of the wonderful professors I met at the camp is now my academic advisor, and two of the professors take me with them to church every Sunday and have taken me to go shopping for winter clothes. I also have the opportunity to share ideas freely.Everyone is so open to discussing issues that matter, 尤其是信仰, even though not everyone believes the same thing.”

Roberts Wesleyan College is blessed with an amazing community of more than 50 international students. These students share their cultures and backgrounds with our campus and help to broaden the perspective of our domestic students. Not only do our international students enrich us, they also grow and have experiences at Roberts that shape their relationships and living and working environments wherever life after Roberts takes them.

Hear from some of our students about life as a Roberts international student...

“Being an international student at Roberts and getting to know other international students helped me to develop a more global mindset and become more culturally competent. The business program at Roberts emphasized ethics and integrity as well as servant leadership. I would like to use the impact this has had on me to impact others by promoting ethical rules and regulations in the global financial market.——Harmeet Luthra(印度

"During the three years in college, Roberts has made a significant impact on me. As an international student from China, 我感受到了他们的热情, 支持, and help of professors who always give every student an equal opportunity to receive an education. 作为一所基督教学院, Roberts has a friendly and positive atmosphere, enabling me to make many 朋友hips from different countries. As a business school student, I will continue to pass on the impact brought by Roberts to me. In the future business field, I will build long-term relationships with my partners and customers and provide them with the most incredible benefits.——魏玲玲(中国

“Roberts has shown me how different cultures and perspectives can coexist and work together to grow as a society, that our differences do not matter as much as what unites us. 毕业后, I plan to get my Physics doctorate and keep learning to know how the world works to improve it and impact others as positively as Roberts has done to me.——西尔维娅·佩罗(西班牙

Make a gift today and 支持 international students with superior language instruction, 文化体验, 和密集的学术, 社会, 情感支持. Here are some of the ways your gift can make an impact.