Yale Divinity School Creates First Endowed Scholarship Aimed at Catholic Students

July 26th, 2010

A scholarship in honor of the late Henri Nouwen, who taught at Yale Divinity School for a decade beginning in 1971, has been established through a gift of $300,000 from a University benefactor who wishes to remain anonymous. The Henri Nouwen Scholarship will be awarded annually to a deserving YDS student, with preference given to Roman Catholics—the first such scholarship to be created at YDS. For most of the past two decades, Roman Catholics have represented the second largest denominational grouping at YDS, after Episcopalians. Go to story

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