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(CHARLOTTE,
NC)--Johnson
Controls presented Johnson C. Smith University President, Dr. Dorothy
Cowser Yancy, Wednesday with a $10,000 check to help fund the
university’s Saturday Academy project.
The money, which is part of Johnson Controls Educational
Achievement Giving Program, will be used to help fund the
academy for one-year. The Saturday Academy is a program where
JCSU students work one on one with students at Thomasboro
Elementary School and Mary Oaks Elementary School. Students not
only fulfill their community service graduation requirement, but
they gain valuable insight into the importance of social
responsibility while working with children.
“The Saturday Academy clearly shows the kind of partnership that
we here at Johnson Controls want to have with the Charlotte
community and JCSU,” said Lisa A. Menzies, Johnson Controls
Director of Business Development of HBCU’s,.
Since it’s founding in 1885, Johnson Controls, Inc. has grown
into a nearly $27 billion corporation, with worldwide leadership
in two businesses of automotive systems and facility management
and control. The controls group installs services and operates
systems that manage energy use.
Founded in 1867 as Biddle Memorial Institute, the university
enrolls approximately 1,500 students and confers bachelor’s
degrees to hundreds of students each year in 32 different
majors. |
