How You Can Help

Your tax-deductible contribution to the Patricia Cassin Graft Student Teacher Assistance Fund is the best way you can help meet the need for qualified teachers in under-served schools. Your help supports qualified, caring and committed future teachers to provide the quality education that all children deserve.

• $4,100 pays for the tuition of a student teacher during their 12-week internship.

• $5,000 pays for a future-teacher's tuition; and helps grow the student teaching endowment so that it can continue to help future teachers for years to come.

• $10,000 provides two awards during the college's Fall, Winter or Spring terms; and contributes to the student teaching endowment.

• $50,000 provides a year's worth of scholarship support: four scholarships each term, providing critically needed tuition assistance to 12 teachers-in-training; and helps to grow the student teaching endowment for future generations.

You can make a gift to the Patricia Cassin Graft Student Teacher Assistance Fund via our secure online web site. Click here to make your gift online.

Or, make your check payable to National-Louis University Patricia Cassin Graft Student Teacher Assistance Fund, and mail to:

National-Louis University
Patricia Cassin Graft
Student Teacher Assistance Fund
122 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60603

National-Louis University is a private, independent, 501c3 nonprofit university incorporated in the state of Illinois (FIN: 36-21677804, Illinois: E9990-2079-05).

No administrative costs will be charged against your gift; 100% of your support goes to the scholarship.

Contact Jennifer Harris, 312-261-3155, or jharris@nl.edu for additional information.

"The importance of student teaching and financial assistance for student teachers can't be over-emphasized. Student teaching is the most critical, final phase of any teacher's preparation but, without a doubt, imposes the most serious financial burden on any future teacher who is working to pay their way through school."

- Alison Hilsabeck, Ed.D.
  Dean, National College of Education