The 2009 Alumni Grants Program will be awarding a total of $7,635 to five campus programs.

The recipients include:

• a joint program of the Office of Admissions and the Office of Diversity and Multiculturalism which will bring high school students from underrepresented groups to campus, linking the students with a KSC student mentor who will help them explore the benefits of a college education
• an English Department effort to provide a professional development seminar for middle and high school teachers and the public exploring the richness and diversity of the Middle Ages;
• the Cheshire Academy for Lifelong Learning’s expansion of their continuing education program to Saturdays
• the 2009 Biannual Symposium “From Local to Global: 100 Years of Education at Keene State College”
• a recycling awareness campaign planned by the Recycling and Sustainability Office.