Ƶ 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 Ƶ.
Ƶ’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 Ƶ 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 Ƶ Academy, a college access program for promising high school students with financial need or no family history of college. Ƶ Academy students taking sustainable food courses will use the center’s kitchen to store and prepare food grown in Ƶ’s Community Garden.
The Truitt Center is relocating to the Numen Lumen Pavilion, which opens this spring as Ƶ’s multi-faith center.