College Scholarship

To enhance opportunity in the POWER CDC neighborhood, Friends University has begun an endowed scholarship that will provide half of the tuition, books, and on-campus residence for an outstanding student in need, from central-northeast Wichita.

This “Wichita Alumni Advisory Board Endowed Scholarship Honoring James Arbertha,” is named for POWER CDC’s founding director in honor of his work with – and the achievement of – POWER CDC. 

Through physical improvements to human accommodations, and new opportunities for educational growth – in this carefully targeted, historically challenged community – POWER CDC is breaking the old self-reinforcing cycle of failure and replacing it with… HOPE< OPPORTUNITY & PROGRESS …finally reversing the direction of change, and finally raising the quality of life in central-northeast Wichita.