MSCC Foundation Seeks to Honor Dr. Fenter with Endowed Scholarship

Mid-South Community College’s Foundation Board of Directors has announced Campaign for Hope, a $250,000 fund-raising effort to honor outgoing president, Dr. Glen Fenter.

The campaign will focus on the creation of a scholarship endowment in Dr. Fenter’s honor that will support deserving students pursuing their dreams at MSCC.

“Glen Fenter is a visionary president whose leadership has had an extraordinary impact on Mid-South Community College and eastern Arkansas,” said Foundation Board Chair Franklin Fogleman. “By endowing this scholarship in Dr. Fenter’s honor, we ensure a tribute in perpetuity to Glen and the success he has been instrumental in achieving for the College.

Goldsby Scholarship Worth Its Weight in Gold

New and innovative ideas are often greeted with everything from benign interest to outright denunciation, and such was the case with the Thomas B. Goldsby Jr. Scholarship program at Mid-South Community College. Established through the tremendous generosity and vision of the Goldsby family, the program is now considered the gold standard for providing students with great higher education opportunities while still in high school. Experts all over the country are saying we need more programs just like it.

That certainly wasn’t the situation in the early days of the effort. When Tommy Goldsby came to the College to ask what we would do with a substantial monetary gift ($500,000 at the time), we told him we would create a scholarship program to give deserving, qualified high school students a head start on their higher learning experience. He liked the idea and gave us half a million dollars to get it rolling. We soon discovered that other folks weren’t quite as enthralled with the concept.