Onyx Fall-Winter 2017

ON THE AVENUE

Over $1 Million Raised in 2016-2017 for Woods Fund

Big and small gifts from alumni, parents and friends come together to help SMWC provide a world-class education to the current and future students. This year, donors helped SWMC not only complete its goal for the fiscal year, but greatly exceed it. The original goal for the Woods Fund was to raise $975,000, and the College exceeded that with $1,136,400. These gifts offset operating costs by providing funding for student scholarships, facility enhancements and technology advancements, among other things.

Current campus students - Back L to R: Jacob Wilson; Samantha Mitchell, Allee Taylor; Kaci Jones and Ronald Brewer Front L to R: Jennifer Melton; Armonte Hall and Alexis Cobb.

Director of the Master of Arts in Art Therapy program Jill McNutt, Ph.D., recently had the opportunity to meet Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence in Washington, D.C. Together with a small group of art therapy professionals, McNutt brainstormed with the former Indiana first lady on ways to promote art therapy and its contributions to healthcare. SMWC’s distance art therapy program is the only one in Indiana to gain the approval of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA). Karen Pence Invites Art Therapy Director to Washington, D.C.

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