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TWO NEW $25,000 SCHOLARSHIPS CREATED

BY UH LAW ALUMNUS ANDREW COBOS

UH Honors College Director, Service Learning Douglas Erwing (J.D. ’93, Ph.D. ’05); Associate Dean of Alumni
and Community Relations Sondra Tennessee; UH Law Center Dean Leonard M. Baynes; Andrew J. Cobos
(M.B.A. ’11, J.D. ’11); Nicholas G. Kacal (J.D. ’20), Associate Attorney for The Cobos Law Firm; and Kianna
Yvonne Zermeno (’19), Intake Specialist for The Cobos Law Firm

ndrew Cobos may have graduated from the University of Houston Investing time and talent in students and other small businesses is
ALaw Center and Bauer College of Business in 2011, but he hasn’t important to Cobos because of the time and talent UH educators gave
forgotten the impact of those schools on his life. This year, the Cobos to him and his attorneys at Cobos Law Firm. He believes that’s what
Law Firm gifted a generous $25,000 scholarship to the Law Center gave them the skills necessary to be better advocates and he wants to
and another $25,000 to UH’s Bauer School SURE™ program. The repay that gift.
law scholarship will go to a first-generation student as part of the UH “The most important thing that my firm can do is give back to assist
Law Center’s Fuel the Future Initiative, which empowers social equity others along their educational journey,” Cobos said.
and access to legal education through philanthropic support.
“Many thanks to UH Law alumnus Andrew Cobos for giving a very These gifts – totaling $50,000, establishes both scholarships. Cobos
intends to develop and grow his firm’s relationship with the Law
generous gift to the UH Law Center in order to support student Center and the SURE™ program. To date, over 1400 entrepreneurs
scholarships,” Dean Leonard M. Baynes said. “Fuel the Future!” have been trained and 600 small businesses launched in under-
The other gift goes to the SURE™ program – which stands for resourced communities with the assistance and guidance of the
Stimulating Urban Renewal through Entrepreneurship. It empowers SURE™ faculty. ^
entrepreneurs in under-resourced communities, like Houston’s Third
Ward, teaching them essential business skills such as record-keeping,
taxes, marketing, and financial management.

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