Stephen Can of West Windsor has donated $250,”000 to Jefferson Community College. After graduating from the school in 1980, he transferred to SUNY Plattsburgh and later earned a master’s degree in finance from the Krannert Business School at Purdue. Can is a managing director of Credit Suisse in the asset management division, based in New York.##M:[more]##
The majority of the gift will provide funding to extend the newly-created Jefferson Scholars program, a merit-based scholarship program that provides first year, full tuition scholarships for Jefferson County and Lewis County students who graduate in the top 15 percent of their respective class.