The University of Arkansas at Monticello announced it received a $1.3 million gift to establish the Jonathan Hartley Endowed Scholarship for Forestry.
The gift comes from the estate of Andrea Stanley Hartley, mother of the late Jonathan Hartley, and is the third-largest single gift in the university’s history, the university said in a news release. Scholarships will benefit undergraduate and graduate forestry students in the College of Forestry, Agriculture and Natural Resources (CFANR) at UAM.
Jonathan Hartley graduated from UAM in 2005 with a bachelor’s in forestry. In 2011, he earned a master’s in forest resource management from UAM.
From 2005-2015, Hartley worked as a program technician at UAM, with his main areas of research in biometrics and wood products. He became Drew County Forester for the Arkansas Forestry Commission in 2015 and held the position until 2018, when he died at age 34 from a chronic illness.
“Jonathan was heavily involved with our forestry program as a student and professional forester, and it’s a fitting legacy that we’ll carry on his name for scholarships that will help countless forestry students get a degree,” Michael Blazier, dean of CFNAR at UAM and director of the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, said in a statement. “Jonathan’s family recognized how positively Jonathan’s life was affected by finding his passion for forestry and working closely with our faculty as a student and technician, and it’s a great privilege for us to honor him through generations of UAM foresters to come.”
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