Education Chair Endowed at Chapman
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A retired Los Angeles Unified School District teacher has donated $1 million to Chapman University, her alma mater, to endow a chair at the School of Education.
Paula A. Hassinger said she gave the gift to Chapman because the university has a long tradition of encouraging students who pursue careers in education to aim high.
“The Chapman professors were especially interested in students as individuals,” said Hassinger, who graduated in 1943. “I believe that Chapman had much the same philosophy of training teachers then as they have now, providing good, practical training combined with higher standards.”
The chair will be named the Jack R. and Paula A. Hassinger Chair in Education, university officials said.
Hassinger said she was moved to make the donation because when she was young her family could not afford to send her to college. A scholarship from a Modesto church, she said, provided her the means for higher education.
The university, which has a full- and part-time faculty of 63, certified more than 2,000 teachers last year.
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