Dana Minney Receives P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education Grant

The Graduate College is pleased to announce that Dana Minney, currently in the family and child studies graduate program, has been selected by Chapter IW (Horseshoe Bay) of the P.E.O. Sisterhood to receive a $1,500 grant through its Program for Continuing Education. P.E.O. stands for Philanthropic Educational Organization, and its mission is to support educational opportunities for women. The Program for Continuing Education provides need-based grants to women whose education has been interrupted and who return to school to complete a degree that improves their marketable skills for employment. This is the first time students from Texas State have applied for and received these grants. 

Dana is currently working as an evaluator for social-emotional learning in a local after-school childcare program as part of her practicum. She heard about the award through The Graduate College’s external funding coordinator, Dr. Andrea Hilkovitz, reaching out to her shortly after she started her graduate program. Though she is grateful that she will be able to upgrade her computer with her grant money, the award means more to Dana than financial support: it also means she is part of a sisterhood of successful, wise women who are working on and unified by the idea of helping women improve their career and life possibilities. Congrats, Dana!