September 19, 2010
An Entrepreneur Backs First-Generation College Students
Courtney Perry for The Chronicle
Eric Suder started out as a typical donor, endowing scholarships at West Virginia U. and the U. of Texas at Austin. Then he began to think bigger, creating awards for first-generation-college students at public universities around the country.
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Courtney Perry for The Chronicle
Eric Suder started out as a typical donor, endowing scholarships at West Virginia U. and the U. of Texas at Austin. Then he began to think bigger, creating awards for first-generation-college students at public universities around the country.
Eric Suder started out as a pretty conventional donor. The company he started, which makes telephone systems for businesses, made Mr. Suder a wealthy man. He used some of that wealth to endow scholarships at his alma mater, West Virginia University, and at the University of Texas at Austin, where his children went.
But Mr. Suder is an entrepreneur. He wanted to do something bigger to support students, and he wanted to make it his own. Now he's giving money to colleges he had never
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