New Scholarship Supports Pfeiffer University Occupational Therapy Students
The Ellen M. Snyder Endowed Scholarship, the first scholarship fund established to assist students of Pfeiffer University’s Master of Science in Occupational Therapy (MSOT) program, will issue inaugural awards this fall.
Albemarle’s Michael E. Snyder (who goes by Mike) and his wife, Karen, created the fund with a gift of $125,000 via the Michael E. Snyder Family Foundation. The Snyders are encouraging others to add to the scholarship or establish scholarship funds of their own in support of Pfeiffer’s MSOT students. The MSOT program has operated in the Center for Health Sciences (CHS) on East Main Street in downtown Albemarle since 2020 and recently became fully accredited through 2030.
“It is an honor to have such a wonderful scholarship to further the growth of the occupational therapy profession by providing future OT practitioners with resources and support financially,” said Dr. Crystal C. Gaddy, an assistant professor in the MSOT program who serves as its Interim Program Director.