INDIANAPOLIS — Marian University enrolled its largest ever first-year class, including a record number of Hispanic students this fall semester."We have been very intentional about the way we are recruiting Latino Students," Executive Director of the Latino Leadership Initiative Manuela Salazar said.
“I hope I could be somewhere across the world. What I really wanna be is in sports media in England because I live soccer. I wanna talk about it. I wanna be on the news," Regules said.She works as a medical assistant in a clinic and wants to be travel nurse when she gets older. “I see other teens that they travel around the world with their family or by themselves. I don’t have that opportunity or that ability to travel by myself. So when I grow older I wanna study a good career, get money to help me be financially ready and stable," Celeste Salazar said.
Regules and Salazar are recipients of the John and Phyllis Sullivan Memorial Scholarship, which provides full tuition for all four years to two Indianapolis Public School grads. “It’s really important because some of us don’t have the opportunity to go to college or our parents since they didn’t live the same as us they didn’t have the opportunity to grow up and go to school or finish school for some reason. It’s important for us to show our community we can make it without anybody helping us," Celesta Salazar said. The university reports 99% of its students take advantage of the $45.2 million in awarded grants and scholarships every year.