UAMS to start minority-group scholarship
Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008
Starting next fall, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will offer a full-tuition scholarship for minority-group students in its College of Medicine.
The college has raised $ 324, 000 of its $ 400, 000 goal for the scholarship endowment, named for the late Dr. Raymond Phillip Miller, according to a news release.
Miller grew up in a family with 14 children in Cotton Plant in Woodruff County. He got a bachelor’s degree at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College — now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff — and studied internal medicine at UAMS.
Miller became the University of Arkansas board of trustees’ first black member in 1972 and served as the board’s chairman in 1981 and 1982. Miller died of cancer in August 2005 at 68.
“Raymond Miller had a record of distinguished service at the University of Arkansas and through his extensive leadership in the business and professional community,” said Dr. Thomas Bruce, former dean of the UAMS College of Medicine and chairman of the endowment committee.
The Arkansas Medical Dental & Pharmaceutical Association and the Arkansas Minority Health Commission pledged $ 100, 000 over the next 18 months to help establish the Raymond P. Miller Scholarship Endowment. The endowment is expected to raise $ 16, 000 a year.
The scholarship committee will award scholarships to blacks, Hispanics or other minority-group members underrepresented at the college who have “financial need and outstanding character and scholarship,” according to the news release issued Thursday.
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