HOPE Award - Honoring Outstanding Personal Effort

By the time Lynn Adkins took her first class at SU in 1993, she was nearly six years older than most of the incoming class. When she completed her B.S. in accounting in 1997, she was almost a decade into her career while most of her classmates had yet to start theirs. Ten years later, as the Salisbury University Foundation, Inc’s new accountant, she saw other non-traditional students facing many of the same challenges she did. Now serving as SU’s associate vice president for administration and finance, she has taken a step toward providing more resources for that demographic by endowing the Honoring Outstanding Personal Effort (HOPE) Scholarship Award at SU. “While being employed at the Foundation, I saw firsthand how much our programmatic and scholarship endowments benefit our student population,” said Adkins. “I’ve known for a long time that I wanted to start an endowment that could assist non-traditional students.”