The Huerta Scholars Program, Powered by its Global #GivingTuesday Campaign, Helped Boost Native Enrollment to Record Numbers

TUCSON (Oct. 22, 2015) — Alumni, friends and supporters of the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy (IPLP) Program have helped recruit a record-breaking class of Native students through the Huerta Scholars Program’s #GivingTuesday 2014 scholarship campaign. This year, for its #GivingTuesday 2015 campaign, IPLP’s goal is to double the $60,000 donated to the scholarship fund last year. On Giving Tuesday 2015, which falls on December 1 this year, lawyers and other supporters of American Indian legal rights and legal education will be asked to donate the first billable hour of their day to the Huerta Scholars Program to support the law college’s efforts to raise at least an additional $120,000 in scholarship funds for Native law students.

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