Gebrüder Weiss Expands Loyola College Chicago Scholarship Program
Chicago, Il (October 4, 2022) – Gebrüder Weiss USA, a worldwide freight forwarder with a core enterprise of overland transport, air, and sea freight and logistics, elevated its present to Loyola College Chicago to offer scholarships for Arrupe Faculty, which provides college students the chance to pursue two-year affiliate levels. The scholarships will likely be used to offer tuition help to college students with monetary wants, as decided by the College. Gebrüder Weiss beforehand created a scholarship for Quinlan College of Enterprise college students enrolled within the Bachelor of Enterprise Administration in Provide Chain Administration program. Each scholarships are designed to help workforce range. The corporate chosen Loyola College Chicago due to its distinctive management within the provide chain and logistics subject and its vary of alternatives for college students of all financial backgrounds.
“Based mostly on the success of our present scholarship program for Quinlan College of Enterprise, our U.S. management staff took one other have a look at what we may do to proceed fostering inclusion, not simply within the provide chain, however within the workforce as an entire,” stated Mark McCullough, CEO of Gebrüder Weiss USA. “The leaders of tomorrow are school college students at present. We imagine supporting Arrupe Faculty with instructional alternatives for people who could not in any other case have entry to varsity helps develop extra range amongst future enterprise professionals,” he continues.
College students will likely be awarded Gebrüder Weiss scholarships annually for the subsequent 5 years. Arrupe Faculty provides two-year affiliate levels in Liberal Arts, Enterprise, or Social and Behavioral Sciences and works with enrolled college students to find out a post-graduation path, both discovering significant employment or transferring to a four-year school to pursue a bachelor’s diploma. The scholarships will additional Arrupe’s mission to assist college students graduate with little to no debt.
“Arrupe Faculty of Loyola College Chicago is grateful for Gebruder Weiss’s help of our college students. This dedication is an excellent expression of confidence in our modern strategy to offering a pathway to a school diploma for first-generation, low-income college students from divested communities in and round Chicago. It additionally demonstrates Gebruder Weiss’s dedication to diversifying the workforce inside the communities they name house,” Fr. Tom Neitzke, S.J., EdD Dean and Govt Director of Arrupe Faculty.
About Arrupe Faculty, Loyola College Chicago
Launched in 2015, Arrupe Faculty of Loyola College Chicago is a two-year school for motivated college students with restricted monetary assets. It continues the Jesuit custom of providing a rigorous liberal arts schooling to a various inhabitants, lots of whom are the primary of their household to pursue increased schooling.
Utilizing an modern mannequin that ensures affordability whereas offering look after the entire particular person—intellectually, morally, and spiritually—Arrupe prepares its graduates to proceed on to a bachelor’s program or transfer into significant employment. Heeding the decision of its namesake, famend Jesuit chief Pedro Arrupe, S.J., the school evokes its college students to try for excellence, work for justice, and change into “individuals for others.”
About Gebrüder Weiss
Gebrüder Weiss Holding AG, based mostly in Lauterach, Austria, is a globally operative full-service logistics supplier. The family-owned firm employs almost 8,000 folks worldwide and boasts 180 company-owned places. North American places embody headquarters in Chicago and places of work in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, El Paso, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Creating and altering with its clients’ wants throughout its intensive historical past, Gebrüder Weiss can be a pioneer in sustainable enterprise practices having carried out myriad ecological, financial, and social initiatives. Custom-made options with a single level of contact present clients with an distinctive service expertise targeted on dependable and economical options. www.gw-world.com
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