Milligan Family Cristo Rey Scholarship
As an alumnus and friend of the University, Anne and Steve Milligan established this fund on December 18, 2019.Anne (O’Connell) Milligan graduated from Santa Clara University in 1988 with a degree in Accounting. She met Steve Miligan while working at Price Waterhouse, San Jose. Anne and Steve were married in the Santa Clara Mission Church in March 1991. They have two children that both attend Catholic school in the Bay Area. As passionate supporters of Catholic education and, especially, Jesuit education it was an easy decision to establish an endowed scholarship to benefit students graduating from Cristo Rey San Jose High School. Cristo Rey provides a Jesuit high school education for students in underserved communities in San Jose. With this scholarship, Anne and Steve hope to bring continued Jesuit higher education to primarily first-generation students from the Bay Area.
Impact
The Milligan Family Cristo Rey Scholarship was established to support undergraduate students who demonstrate financial need with a preference for supporting students who graduate from Cristo Rey San Jose High School. If there is not a student who meets this first preference, a second preference would be for a student who graduates from a Cristo Rey high school.