ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ leaders will formally dedicate the Sklut Hillel Center on Sunday, March 3, 2013. The university community is invited to attend.
1:30 p.m.
401 East College Avenue (former site of the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life)
The Sklut Hillel Center will create a permanent home for an active Hillel organization, which serves a growing Jewish population on campus. This year there are more than 400 Jewish students at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Board of Trustees named the new center in honor of Lori and Eric Sklut of Charlotte, N.C. The couple, who are parents of an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ student, made a lead gift through the Levine-Sklut Family Foundation to fund creation of the center.
The center will also serve campus groups such as the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, a college access program for promising high school students with financial need or no family history of college. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy students taking sustainable food courses will use the center’s kitchen to store and prepare food grown in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Community Garden.
The Truitt Center is relocating to the Numen Lumen Pavilion, which opens this spring as ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s multi-faith center.