Our Crowdfunding Groups
The William Magee Center’s Collegiate Recovery Community supports students as they reach their ultimate potential and graduate college. Our Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC) Scholarship Fund ensures that students who are engaged in their recovery and academic success are rewarded for their hard work.
Why We Need Your Help
The CRC Scholarship Fund has helped many Ole Miss students remain connected to their recovery and pursuit of academic excellence. Your support will allow our growing Collegiate Recovery Community to ease the burden of college expenses by rewarding our CRC students’ hard work and journey toward success. As our Collegiate Recovery Community continues to grow, we need additional funding to sustain our scholarship.
Make a Difference in a Student’s Recovery Journey
The Collegiate Recovery Community Scholarship Fund was created in 2013 with a gift from Dr. Glenn Hunt and Sharon Hunt. Our CRC scholarship emulates the most successful programs in the country by recognizing that scholarship support and deeper engagement in the Collegiate Recovery Community leads to fewer relapses and higher GPAs. Your additional support for this scholarship will allow us to grow our membership and help more students attain a goal that at one point may have seemed out of reach: achieving recovery while graduating from Ole Miss.
For our CRC Scholarship recipients, your support can be life-changing. “It shows me that people actually care about us, truly,” said one recipient. “Knowing in the back of my mind that someone is willing to give money to our group, it gives me extra motivation knowing that there is support. It makes things easier when you know someone is rooting for you.”
Why the William Magee Center Supports the CRC
The William Magee Center for AOD and Wellness Education, created to honor the memory of a former Ole Miss graduate who battled addiction, is designed to help all students who can benefit from specific services aimed at promoting recovery and personal success. Services like these can save the lives of young people. We have dedicated staff and student workers as well as a space on campus to help ensure our CRC students have a place to study, build community and achieve their goals. Our duty is to serve students in need and help them succeed.
Access to this fund allows us to engage students when they need us most. Qualifying for a scholarship requires hours of work, recovery meeting attendance and a commitment to academic achievement. We have seen the tangible impact of these scholarships, with students initially seeking support and eventually leaving campus with their degree and their sobriety.
“I want to go into the clinical mental health counseling program,” said another CRC scholarship recipient. “I want to focus on the area of substance use disorders. It’s something I’ve struggled with in the past, and I feel it’s the right thing to do to help others moving forward.”
How Your Gift Helps Our Students
Each semester, we provide thousands of dollars in scholarships to our CRC students. Your gift moves us closer to providing a scholarship to any student on campus who is in recovery and wants to be part of our ever-growing Collegiate Recovery Community. Every gift of any size makes it possible for us to support students committed to their recovery and success at Ole Miss.
Make a Gift Today and Help Students in Recovery Thrive at Ole Miss
Recovery is a life-long pursuit, and your support directly contributes to a program that rewards their effort. Any gift you can provide will strengthen the Ole Miss recovery community and the support offered through the William Magee Center.
The CRC offers students the accountability and support needed to live by the principles of One Day at a Time and focus on preparing for their academic success and future careers. One small gift can make a huge difference.
Academic achievement is a cornerstone of the Collegiate Recovery Community here at UM. The CRC plays a pivotal role in students’ recovery and their dedication to academic success. Last semester our students impressively improved their overall GPAs. Helping financially provides students with continued study space, school supplies and academic support.
College students living their lives in recovery are truly an inspiration. Whether they come with one day in active recovery or 12 months, they are met with support and celebration. Collectively, our students have 208 months in recovery. Every day counts and so does every dollar.
By giving $500, you can support one student receiving the Silver Tier scholarship. All scholarships are based on active recovery, service to others and community involvement within the CRC.
A gift of $1,000 is the equivalent of one student receiving the Gold Tier scholarship for CRC. The Gold Tier scholarship is the highest achievement level. This past semester, the CRC awarded five outstanding students the Gold Tier scholarship.