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By JOHN ELIGON
On Friday, the Archdiocese of New York made public its announcement that St. Pius was one of six schools that would close for good in June because of financial struggles and declining enrollments. St. Pius has 229 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade, 75 fewer than it had in 2004, the archdiocese said. Ms. Santana said that St. Pius, open for 95 years, is more than a school. It is the hub of a close-knit community in the mostly Hispanic Mott Haven section of the Bronx, linking generations. Ms. Santana graduated from St. Pius in 1971. Three of her children have graduated from the school, and she now has twin daughters there in seventh grade, a grandson in second grade and a granddaughter in first grade.
By ELISSA GOOTMAN
By JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON
AT Public School 308 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, mornings officially begin with an address to teachers and students by the school’s tall and commanding principal, Gail Bell-Baptiste. Back in her cluttered office, Dr. Bell-Baptiste reflected on a less cheerful aspect of her job: having to perform emergency midyear surgery on her school’s budget. The hard choices she made illustrate the ground-level impact of a $180 million cut in the citywide system’s annual operating budget of $10.3 billion, excluding teachers’ salaries.
By: eSchool Staff Writers
By: Associated Press
By Bill Schneider CNN Senior Political Analyst
alligator.org
State Senator Jeremy Ring may be a Democrat, but his proposed "economic development tool" is anything but democratic. The bill is supposed to alter current standards for the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program to encourage students to study the sciences, education or health-related professions. Ring's idea includes awarding 110 percent of tuition costs to students who choose those fields, but less Bright Futures money to the philosophy and English majors among us. The senator claims that state scholarships would still cover 80 percent tuition for some students and would remain a "good deal," but we don't see anything overtly wrong with the deal we have now.
BY JAMES T. MADORE
newsday.com ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer's proposed budget for 2008-09 gives and takes from school districts on Long Island. He wants to give about $60 million in "high-tax aid" to middle-class districts to help alleviate crushing property taxes - but he also would reduce to 2 percent the minimum aid increase received by districts, a top aide said over the weekend. Overall, state aid to education would jump 7.5 percent to $21 billion in 2008-09 and remains on track to reach $25.5 billion by 2010-11, keeping a promise Spitzer made in the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. This year's budget includes a record $19.6 billion for public schools, up $1.78 billion from 2006-07.
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Azventurecapital.com The College of Entrepreneurship at Grand Canyon University will begin offering full scholarships to low-income high school students seeking to start their own business as part of its commitment to EntrepreneurshipWeek USA, a national effort to inspire and encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice, while helping celebrate America’s unique culture of inventiveness.
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Walden University Launched Scholarships For Graduate Level Education Walden University, an accredited and reputable online institution offering a wide range of Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral degrees launched a need-based scholarship program just before the year 2007 started. The new scholarship program is called Walden University Doctoral Studies Scholarship. Walden offers a total of $1Million worth of scholarships that will be given to 100 deserving new online doctoral students who will meet the financial need requirements.
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Australia is very pleased to be assisting Bangladesh develop its human capital, by offering 79 talented men and women scholarships to Australia's world-class universities", the Australian High Commissioner, Douglas Foskett, said Sunday at a pre-departure ceremony held in the city.
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YourInvestNews.com The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said Friday that it has awarded more than $850,000 in academic merit scholarships for 2006-07. The scholarships went to 149 freshmen - 125 from North Carolina and 24 from other states. All awards are renewable for each of three more years of undergraduate study, bringing the total value of the awards to more than $3.4 million. Many were created by private donations.
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A Houston oil executive's widow has donated 100 (M) million dollars to expand the merit scholarship program at the University of North Carolina. The gift from Mary Cain will allow the Chapel Hill university to nearly double the size of the scholarship program, which will be renamed the Morehead-Cain Scholarship.
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By Edward Oser
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CUNA.org Four CUNA Councils collectively awarded $66,000 in scholarships last year and hope to increase the amount awarded to $80,000 in 2007. CUNA's Lending Council, Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Council, Marketing and Business Development Council and Technology Council scholarships are dispensed to help improve education, skills and opportunities for employees of small credit unions.
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By Donna Bunce
OCregister.com Masks and beads were the accoutrement of choice at The Friends of Jazz's sixth annual Mardi Gras Ball on Feb. 18 at the Embassy Suites in Brea. Many of the 150 guests joined master of ceremonies and parade grand marshal Randy Gianetti, costumed as the Phantom of the Opera, as he led the New Orleans-style parade.
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What are your plans for Spring Break -- playful, i.e. fun in the sun, or practical, i.e. looking for ways to afford ever-rising higher education costs? Why not both?! Spring break is a great time for students to let loose and still have time to apply for scholarship monies to help finance their higher education.
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The Colesville Dollars for Scholars program will hold its 14th annual “Dollars for Scholars Phone-A-Thon” on March 2 to March 4. Harpursville students will call area residents from 4 to 9 p.m. March 2 and from 1 to 3 p.m. March 4, asking for pledges of $5 or more for scholarship funds.
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By John Norton
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Members from more than 100 chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated raised $20,000 for Educational Advancement during a conference to kick off a countdown to the organization's centennial anniversary in 2008.
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ActressArchives.com Singer and actress, Alicia Keys, who will star in the upcoming Smokin' Aces with Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Common, and many more is offering $5,000 scholarships to four students heading for higher education, according to the BBC.
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By Michelle Hall
K-state.edu Kansas State University is nominating three students to compete for $30,000 Harry S. Truman scholarships. James Hohenbary, assistant dean for scholarship development, said the nominees are Greg Corbin, Jenna Kennedy and Molly Kuhlman. Students selected as Truman finalists will interview in Kansas City in mid-March. Winners will be announced by early April.
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Businesswire.com Capella University (www.capella.edu), an accredited, fully online university, has awarded $10,000 scholarships to 10 students interested in Capella’s project management specializations. The scholarship was open to students in the university’s master of information technology program, master of business administration program, and bachelor’s degree in information technology program.
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Charleston.net
It didn’t bring any jobs or investment to South Carolina, but EADS North America did leave a $100,000 consolation prize for engineering scholarships.
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By Myung Oak Kim
RockyMountainNews.com Dozens, if not hundreds, of Colorado students - many of them low-income - are in jeopardy of losing major college scholarships because of the new gift-ban law known as Amendment 41.
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Spectatornews.com Three UW-Eau Claire students living in off-campus apartments got a bit of a surprise last semester when they each received a $250 scholarship from their landlords. Graduate student Aliesha Dehmer and seniors Grant Lissick and Randall Pingrey received scholarships from North Country Aire Properties, University Area Housing and Caron Management, respectively, according to a university press release.
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By Betsy Pickle
Knoxnews.com Central High School skateboarders earned two prizes for "Skateboarding in Knoxville" and were offered scholarships from two colleges. Their five-minute documentary about their favorite sport and the lack of local facilities for it won the Best of Show and the Best High School Documentary prizes at the ceremony at Regal Cinemas' West Town Mall 10 last Thursday.
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By Dana Freeman Love was in the air last night at the Latino Student Union's fourth annual Latin Lovers Auction.The LSU began the Latin Lovers Auction in 2004 to go toward the Manny Vadillo Scholarship. Amanda Barrera, sophomore, who has been working on the auction for two months, is an active member of LSU. Vadillo developed the Latino Networking Alliance which aimed to develop scholarships for Latinos at the University in 1981. He retired from his position as senior associate director of BGSU's Center for Multicultural and Academic Initiatives in 2005.
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By Hope Pierson
The Press-Enterprise A fundraiser for a scholarship fund, the "2007 Community Expo" will feature more than 50 exhibitors from local businesses on March 23. The Expo is open to the public from 1 to 4 p.m. at Embassy Suites, 29345 Rancho California Road, Temecula. Scholarships are given to local young women who graduate with a 4.0 grade point average or are hard-working students with average grades, Newman said.
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By GAIL KOCH
gannett.com Earlier this year, Daniels unveiled a sweeping plan to outsource the state's lottery for 30 years. As part of the proposed sale, an upfront payment of $1 billion would fund four-year, $20,000 college scholarships for an estimated 1,700 Hoosier students and attract top faculty to Indiana colleges and universities.
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AXA Advisors, LLC, the retail distribution subsidiary of AXA Financial, a leading financial services company, has announced the availability of the 2007 AXA Achievement Community Scholarship applications. Each AXA Advisors branch office nationwide will be able to distribute up to twelve $2,000 scholarships to high school seniors who live and attend high school in its community.
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Billinggazette.net Triangle Telephone Cooperative and Central Montana Communications are offering six scholarships totaling $4,500. In addition, Montana Independent Telephone Systems is offering one $500 scholarship to be awarded through Triangle Telephone Cooperative and Central Montana Communications.
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By Myung Oak Kim
RockyMountainNews.com Last November, voters approved Amendment 41, which bans elected officials and most state and local employees - and their spouses and children - from taking gifts worth more than $50 in a year. Organizations that give college scholarships are concerned that dozens, if not hundreds, of students could lose aid because of the law.
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By Jacob Ogles
News-press.com The scientific endeavors of some 300 area middle and high school students earned them accolades and more than $500,000 worth of scholarships and awards Wednesday night at the Thomas Alva Edison Kiwanis Science and Engineering Fair.
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By Jason Lea Two students in a Mentor High School automotive program won $1,500 scholarships during the 15th Annual Automotive Technology Competition at the Cleveland Auto Show on Sunday in the I-X Center. Gavin Votaw, 18, a 2006 Mentor graduate, and Peter Hunt, 17, a senior from Willowick, teamed and tied for second in a competition that tested their ability to diagnose, repair and record problems on the automobile.
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Two Triangle teens will receive $2,000 scholarships for their performance on science and math Advanced Placement exams.Hae Rhee Chung of the N.C. School of Science and Math, and Arnave Tripathy of East Chapel Hill High have won the 2006-07 Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement.
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Seven Yale students were among the 48 college students nationwide who were awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships for study at the University of Cambridge. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was established by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for scholars of outstanding academic merit and leadership potential from outside the United Kingdom to study at the University of Cambridge.
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Winners will each receive $1,000 scholarships. For the second year in a row, Avnet has partnered with Maricopa Community Colleges, the largest community college system in the United States with more than 280,000 students, to host the Avnet Tech Games. A multidisciplinary event, the Avnet Tech Games enable students to gain real-world experience in technology, decision making and group dynamics, helping to prepare them for today’s competitive job market.
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By Diane Sherrer
Stargazettenews.com Runners and walkers who supported the inaugural Live Like Liz 5K last June on the Catharine Valley Trail will begin to see the fruits of their labor. The Elizabeth Amisano Ovarian Cancer Education Fun (Live Like Liz Inc.) will offer two newly created scholarships in memory of Elizabeth Amisano of Watkins Glen, who died at the age of 20 in October 2005 from ovarian cancer. Liz was a member of the Watkins Glen track and cross country teams, preferring the throws to the sprints.
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By Liam Farrell
hometownannapolis.com State lawmakers have to wear a lot of hats during a legislative session. Senators and delegates must be quick-study accountants, constitutional lawyers and historians to judge thousands of measures ranging from local bond bills to the definition of marriage. They also have to assume another job title: financial aid officer.
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Beginning in fall 2007, Colorado State University will offer two innovative new scholarship programs for students from low- and middle-income working families, part of an overall campaign focused on improving student access and success at one of the state's leading research universities.The new Colorado's Success Scholarships will support all qualified Colorado State students who are eligible for federal Pell Grants.
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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
www.itjungle.com Gates said that we should ensure that every American child should graduate from high school, and that by 2010, any worker in America should be able to get the training they need to participate in the knowledge economy, including doubling the number of math and science graduates in the country each year by 2015. This, he said, could be driven by an additional 25,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate scholarships in these fields. Gates, of course, is one of the few people on planet Earth who could make that happen by writing one check. It is important to note that he did not, in fact, do that.
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A bill signed by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday is designed to extend the life of the lottery scholarship fund, which has been projected to run out of money in the next few years. Senate Bill 364, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, will require that more money from lottery sales goes to the scholarship fund, and less to administration.
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By Sarah Dinkins
Americanchronicle.com Those seeking finance for college studies not always qualify for student loans whether they are private or federal and sometimes even if they qualify, they just can’t afford the monthly payments. Fortunately, there are government agencies providing funds in the form of government grants and scholarships for students that you won’t have to pay back.
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Diverseeducation.com Hamilton College said Thursday it will stop offering merit scholarships to incoming students in 2008 and use the money instead to provide more need-based assistance to low-and middle-income families. The move won praise from educators who said they hope it will inspire other colleges to follow suit.
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By Ovetta Wiggins
Washingtonpost.com Maryland senators could hand out more money in individual college scholarships with less public scrutiny under a bill set to come before the state Senate today. The legislative scholarship program has long been a source of debate in Annapolis. Critics say it gives lawmakers too much discretion in doling out millions of state dollars. Two Republican lawmakers have bills under consideration to kill or restrict the program.
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By Julia Szinai
dailycal.org As a way to encourage increased financial support from the campus community, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced yesterday that he will match any faculty, staff or student donations made to graduate or undergraduate scholarship funds.
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Columbus, Ohio) — Religion Newswriters invites applicants to its Lilly Scholarships in Religion program, which provides full-time journalists with up to $5,000 to cover the cost of college tuition, books, registration fees, parking and other costs.
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Wednesday night, the UC Berkeley student senate approved a measure that will grant $400 scholarships to students who cannot receive financial aid because of the drug provision. The ASUC Removing Impediments to Students' Education scholarship bill passed without objection and could come into effect this semester. To receive the scholarships, students must have a 2.5 Grade Point Average and commit to doing 20 hours of community service.
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By Bill Zlatos
pittsburghlive.com Needy families might get more help sending their children to private schools. State Sen. Jane Orie, a McCandless Republican, has introduced legislation to expand the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program from $54 million to $74 million.
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By Marissa Moran
Dailycolonial.com President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg surprised nine D.C. Public High School seniors with $200,000 each to attend GW over four years as part of the class of 2011. Since the program’s inception in 1989, the University has given over $13.5 million to 93 academically talented D.C. public school seniors. With the Trachtenberg Scholarships, plus grants and work-study programs, GW has been the largest individual University contributor of financial aid to D.C. Public Schools for the last 14 years.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $122 million initiative Thursday to send hundreds of the District of Columbia's poorest students to college , one of the foundation's largest grants for education. The gift from the Seattle-based foundation of the Microsoft Corp. founder will provide mentoring and college scholarships for more than 2,200 students over the next 10 years. Each will receive up to $10,000 a year for college tuition for up to five years.
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By Broadway.com Staff
Broadway.com The American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC, an intensive summer boot camp for young actors, will offer scholarships to accepted students in need for the first time in 2007. The program is currently seeking applications for the coming session, to be held June 4-15 in New York. Springboard NYC is limited to 35 participants.
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Celebrating its 21st anniversary this year, the Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals (HAHMP), along with its major sponsor Continental Airlines and many others, will be offering $25,000 in scholarships at the 21st Annual HAHMP Sylvan Rodriguez Scholarship Gala. HAHMP will award $2,500 scholarships to 10 deserving students majoring in journalism or communications. The black-tie event takes place on March 30, 2007 at the InterContinental Hotel Houston.
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NCAAsports.com The Freedom Forum, in conjunction with the NCAA, has awarded eight $3,000 scholarships for undergraduate students studying sports journalism at NCAA member institutions. The one-year, nonrenewable scholarships are awarded to students who are entering their senior year of study during the 2007-08 academic year and who are majoring in journalism, sports journalism or who have campus sports journalism experience. The program is designed to foster freedoms of speech and press, while also promoting quality sports journalism education at NCAA colleges and universities. Since 1992, the Freedom Forum has awarded 120 $3,000 scholarships, totaling more than $360,000.
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By Rick Gillespie
suujournal.com The SUUSA Senate approved a bill Tuesday giving $3,250 in scholarships to help students pay for the cost of attending school during the summer semester. Thirteen scholarships of $250 each will be granted to selected students who are planning to attend school this summer, according to the bill. College of Performing & Visual Arts Sen. JP Kentros, who sponsored the bill, said two students from each college and one undeclared student will be selected to receive scholarships.
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By CLAIRE HAWS
Desmoinesregister.com While many graduating seniors are focusing on how to finance their own higher education, the East High School Class of 2007 is looking at ways to help one another foot next year's looming tuition bill. The senior students at East organized their own scholarship drive, gathering donations at football games, selling Village Inn pie coupons and soliciting donations from businesses and community members to make a $1,000 scholarship for one of their classmates possible.
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Min H. Kao, chief executive of Garmin Ltd., the largest manufacturer of navigation gear in America, on Wednesday announced that his family foundation will donate $10 million to establish scholarship funds at six universities for electrical and computer engineering students.
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By Elizabeth Cole
flathatnews.com Every year, the Roy R. Charles Center awards numerous scholarships to students at the College. Thousands of dollars are just an application away, but time is running out — applications for the various scholarships are due March 20. There are at least 13 scholarships available, mostly ranging between $2,000 and $3,000 with a few reaching up to $9,000. Most applications require a two- to three-page proposal, a 750-word personal statement and a transcript.
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By Michaek Hayes
denver.yourhub.com The Rotary Foundation sponsors one of the world's largest international scholarships program. Scholars study in a country other than their own where they also serve as unofficial ambassadors of goodwill. Since 1947 more than 47,000 scholars from 110 countries have received scholarships at a cost of more than $476 million.
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By Scott Jaschik
Insidehighered.com Merit scholarships have a real impact on the yield of top admitted students, but unless those scholarships are exceptionally large, the yield is likely to remain small. The rapid growth in merit scholarships has been controversial: Many institutions (public and private) say that the awards allow them to better shape their classes and to attract talented applicants who might otherwise go elsewhere.
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Commercialappeal.com Lowering the minimum grade-point average college students must maintain to keep their state lottery scholarships was among a number of recommendations the Tennessee Higher Education Commission voted to present to lawmakers. Earlier this year, Gov. Phil Bredesen appointed a committee to review the lottery scholarship program after THEC issued a report showing three out of four students were losing the scholarship before they graduate because their grades weren't high enough.
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By Brent Jones
Baltimoresun.com In an effort to encourage more graduating students to consider college, Baltimore City Community College is offering a year's scholarship to one senior at each of the 41 city high schools. Scholarship winners will receive about $3,400 each to cover tuition, books and other fees.
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By Hyundai Motor America
Earthtimes.org Hyundai Motor America and its dealers donated $25,000 in scholarships to 10 bright and courageous college students who have battled and are winning the fight against pediatric cancer. Each of the winners will be awarded $2,500 towards the college of their choice for the 2007-2008 academic year.
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald Published Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:33:31 AM Central Time MONROE -- On behalf of the Green County Medical Society, Secretary/Treasurer Dr. George Breadon recently presented $750 scholarships from the Gavin Breadon Memorial Scholarship Fund to three Green County medical students. Receiving scholarships are: Kevin Morgan ________________________________________ * Kevin Morgan, son of Tom and Carol Morgan, Monroe. He is a 1999 Monroe High School graduate, has a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004; just completed his junior year at Saint Louis University Medical School; and will graduate MD in May 2008.
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coshoctontribune.com Actor Paul Newman is donating $10 million to Kenyon College to help with tuition for minorities and others from underrepresented groups, the private liberal arts school said Friday.
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Nwherald.com The National Collegiate Athletic Association cut scholarships for 81 teams because of academic deficiencies and said harsher penalties may be in store next year when more complete information is available. San Jose State’s football program was stripped of seven scholarships and was one of four sanctioned schools that made appearances in bowl games last season.
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By Christina M. Wright
Chron.com Barbara LeBanks, 18, returned tonight to the Reliant Park complex where she slept for two weeks after evacuating New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to collect a $12,000 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo scholarship.
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The Verizon Foundation has awarded $1.25 million in college scholarships to 250 children and dependents of Verizon employees. Each recipient will receive $5,000 and is eligible to receive a maximum award of $20,000 throughout four years of college.
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Friends and family of a local honor student killed in the massacre at Virginia Tech are turning their grief into an academic gift.
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By Ann Bryant
sunjournal.com Stephen and Julie Shible awarded two scholarships Friday in memory of their daughter, Jamie Beth Shible, to Mt. Blue cheerleaders Courtney Sara Shufelt and Victoria Najarian. The presentation was held beside a crab apple tree and plaque at Mt. Blue High School that were given in memory of Jamie by friends.
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The 19-year-old 2007 graduate of Ingram Tom Moore High School thought the best way would be attending American University in Washington, D.C. She had the grades, community involvement and confidence needed to get in, but lacked funding. Fortunately, Bradshaw obtained a Gates Millennium Scholarship, which will cover her tuition and most living expenses for a total of $180,000.
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By Liz Beyler
News.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison juniors Adam Schmidt and Max Bruner are among 65 students from 56 colleges and universities nationwide who have been selected as 2007 Truman Scholars. They were chosen from among 585 candidates nominated by 280 public and private institutions. The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, established by Congress in 1975, awards $30,000 scholarships for college students to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or elsewhere in public service. Selection is based on leadership potential, intellectual ability, and the likelihood of making a difference, according to the foundation's announcement of the 2007 scholars late yesterday.
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Thirty-three area high school seniors are receiving $1,000 scholarships from the Comcast Foundation.The 2007 Comcast Leaders and Achievers' Scholarship Program recognizes students who have demonstrated leadership skills, academic achievement and a commitment to community service.
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By Jo Murray
sunvalleyonline.com The Sawtooth Board of Realtors has presented $11,000 in college scholarships to 11 graduating high school seniors in Blaine County.
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by Samantha Turner Coffees, bagels, muffins and scholarships. No, this is not a game of "one of these things is not like the other." Instead, it's what breakfast chain Dunkin' Donuts offers to its patrons and students.
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By Alexandyr Kent
shreveporttimes.com Actor Denzel Washington and his wife Pauletta will present two research scholarships to Los Angeles area students on Sunday at Southern University at Shreveport.
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The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation Inc. last week awarded a total of $88,000 scholarships to seniors at public and private high school in Hawaii.
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Notre Dame's Stephanie Brown and Maryann Erigha were awarded NCAA postgraduate scholarships Tuesday.They were the only athletes from Indiana colleges among the 58 scholarship recipients in spring sports.
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LEAGUE Foundation Awards Scholarships to Seven LGBT Youth Seven more lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth have benefited from the existence of the Bedminster, N.J.-based LEAGUE Foundation. The 11-year-old organization, which provides financial resources to GLBT youth to attend institutions of higher learning, recently awarded college scholarships to the students.
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Technewsworld.com College students preparing for teaching careers in the fields of math and science could receive as much as $10,000 a year in scholarships if a bill approved by the House of Representatives Tuesday passes into law. The bill also funds further training for existing teachers. Recent figures indicate only a quarter of U.S. high school seniors display proficiency in math, and just 18 percent show proficiency in science.
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ajc.com A new calendar year has begun, teachers are returning for the start of a new semester and in just a few weeks school systems will be requiring teachers to sign a contract if they wish to continue in their jobs next school year. The early issuance of contracts — now nearly six months ahead of the new contract year — is a human resources strategy that verges on desperation. School systems are seeking to preserve the staff they have, but they’re doing little to improve it.
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abclocal.go.com LONG ISLAND -- Two teens from Long Island won the team category at the Siemens Competition, which is the nation's premier math, science and technology competition for high school students. Janelle Schlossberger and Amanda Maniroff, seniors at Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview, will split the $100,000 scholarship prize. The pair did research on tuberculosis. Isha Jain, a senior at Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, won the $100,000 scholarship in the individual category for her research on bone growth.
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eurweb.com T-Mobile and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) are launching the T-Mobile Huddle Up Scholarship Program to reduce financial barriers and help increase access to higher education for talented, low-income high school seniors from single-parent or non-traditional households in Washington state. Through the T-Mobile Huddle Up Scholarship Program, T-Mobile will provide up to 10 qualifying students with scholarships to attend accredited four-year colleges or universities. Scholarships of $5,000 will be awarded annually for up to four years.
By:Shay Rosen Distance learning is becoming more mainstream thanks in large part to the traditionally brick and mortar colleges who have embraced the possibilities it offers. Even some Ivy League institutions now offer the opportunity to take some portion of a degree program’s curriculum online. But what about after college, when it’s time to get a job? Does an online degree stack up to a campus based degree in the eyes of employers?
nytimes.com Thirty-two people from the United States have been selected as Rhodes scholars for 2008, the scholarship trust announced yesterday. Nine either come from the region or go to college in it, including students at Columbia, the United States Military Academy, Princeton and Yale. The scholars were selected from 764 applicants endorsed by 294 colleges and universities. A list of the winners and their biographies is available online at www.rhodesscholar.org. The scholarships, the oldest of the international study awards available to American students, provide two or three years of study at Oxford University in England.
By Tara M. Mathany Two Arkansas public universities spent more on scholarships financed by student tuition and fees in 2006 than state law allows. The University of Central Arkansas and Arkansas Tech University spent more than the state limit of 30 percent of students’ tuition and fees on academic and performance scholarships during the 2006-07 academic year, according to a report by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.
By Dave Nagel Discovery Education late last month awarded more than $100,000 in prizes and scholarships as part of its 9th Annual Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge program. This year an 11-year-old, Erik Gustafson, Homer Intermediate School in Cortland, NY, took home the title of "America's Top Young Scientist," along with a $20,000 college scholarship. He was the youngest to date to win the top prize.
The Oklahoman Editorial A step backward. That's the polite way to describe a new higher education policy making it less likely for undocumented immigrants to attend college in Oklahoma. The state Regents for Higher Education's new policy addresses two areas: eligibility for in-state tuition and state-funded financial aid. More specifically, it allows some undocumented immigrants to attend the state's public colleges and universities at the in-state tuition rate but forbids them from receiving scholarships or tuition waivers at state expense.
ARCS Co-President Joan Evangelou, presented SDSU President Stephen L. Weber with a check for the first installment of $65,000. A second check will be presented in January.
The Board of Directors of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund concluded its national search today by announcing the selection of Frank D. Alvarez of Tucson, AZ., as the next president of the largest Hispanic higher education scholarship organization in the country.
By Sara Gandy
9news.com Text messaging has rapidly become one of the most popular ways for kids to communicate. But parents have been a little bit slow getting in the text messaging game. AT&T is trying to change that, hosting the text bee at a Miami High School, designed to improve communication between parents and their kids.
By Muskogee Phoenix Staff muskogeephoenix.com OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, a non-profit organization that recognizes and encourages academic excellence in Oklahoma’s public schools, is seeking nominations for its 2008 Academic All-State Scholarships and Medal for Excellence Awards. Scholarships and educator awards totaling $258,000 will be presented at the foundation’s 22nd annual Academic Awards Banquet May 17 in Tulsa. The event is broadcast statewide on public television and emceed by David L. Boren, the founder and chairman of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence. Academic Awards Program nomination forms are available on the foundation’s Web site at www.ofe.org. Nominations are being accepted in the following categories: • Academic All-State, which honors 100 public high school seniors with a $2,000 scholarship. Students must be nominated by their superintendents or principals. To qualify, students must meet at least one of the following requirements: a composite ACT score of at least 30; a combined SAT critical reading and math score of at least 1350; or be selected as a semi-finalist for a National Merit, National Achievement or National Hispanic Scholarship. • The Oklahoma Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Administration, which honors four educators (a public school elementary, secondary, and college/university teacher and an elementary/secondary administrator) with a $10,000 cash award and a glass sculpture. In addition, the school, department or school system of these four award winners will be presented a $2,000 cash award to support academic programs. Both individuals and schools are eligible to nominate educators for these awards. • The Oklahoma Medal for Excellence in Alternative Education, which honors the public school alternative education program judged to be the most effective. The winning program receives $10,000 and a glass sculpture. Any person familiar with the program is eligible to make the nomination. All Medal for Excellence nominations must be postmarked by Nov. 26, while Academic All-State nominations must be postmarked by Dec. 1. For more information, visit the foundation’s Web site at www.ofe.org or call (405) 236-0006.
Give and take in UW's scholarship programMary Whitfield This fall marks the first year of the University of Washington's fantastic Husky Promise scholarship program, which provides full tuition assistance to the state's poorest students and makes the dream of a UW education an achievable reality. Sad to say, what the UW provides with one hand it takes away with the other. Because of the way the UW defines who is subject to its English proficiency requirement, many foreign-born students are forced to take up to five ESL classes that do not count toward graduation and for which they must pay a "fee" of $1,067 each.
http://www.scheppfoundation.org/index.html The Leopold Schepp Foundation which was established in 1925 encourages students to pursue a college education. The Foundation provides approximately 200 awards to students who are in four year colleges or graduate programs. To meet the eligibility requirements, undergraduate students must be under the age of 30 and graduate students under the age of 40. High school seniors are not eligible to apply. The student must also have a 3.0 gpa on a 4.0 scale and demonstrate financial need. Small grants and fellowships are also awarded by the Foundation to students interested in independent research and studies.
A 26-year-old Sydney art student has won this year's Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: August 13, 2007 A scholarship fund has been set up for slain NYU student, Boitumelo McCallum, at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. The fund will help student a student from Africa. Ms. McCallum was murdered in her Greenwich apartment by her boyfriend, Michaeal Cordero. She was just 20 years old.
www.forbes.com KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Grantham University, http://www.grantham.edu, an online university specializing in educating working adults, today announced it's providing a four-year scholarship, including textbooks and software, to a wounded soldier's wife in Lowry City, Mo. The soldier, Sgt. George Bellis of the Missouri National Guard, was not able to accept the scholarship himself because of severe injuries sustained while serving in Iraq. His wife Tricia, will be awarded the scholarship for an undergraduate program of her choice.
If you have a child in special education, you might qualify for a new scholarship. Earlier this year, the Georgia Legislature passed a bill, recognizing the financial needs of this particular population. And now, a few residents are trying to get the word out about this new opportunity. "It gives parents more choices about what to do," says Ava White. Ava White is talking about SB 10. It's a new law that the Georgia Legislature passed this year, offering scholarship money to students enrolled in a special education program.
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), the nation's leading organization supporting Hispanic higher education, has awarded more than $26.5 million in scholarships for the 2006-2007 academic year. In addition, HSF has just launched a new online system through which students can apply directly on the Web for scholarships. Applicants should go to http://www.hsf.net for more information. "I am excited that our organization can provide so many Hispanics with the hope and the resources to follow their dreams to go to college through the generous support of our corporate partners, committed individuals and private foundations," said Christopher E. Jones, HSF Chief Operating Officer. "Our new online system will streamline the application process and hopefully increase the number of applicants for the coming year."
The Auburn Football Lettermen Club Scholarship Endowment for scholarships now stands at $980,000 after a recent gift of $263,000 by the estate of Columbus woman Florence Hawkins Brooks. The club sponsored 29 scholarships to Auburn in 2007. Scholarships are for the children of club members. ...
Emily Shackelton, a 21-year-old Berklee College of Music student, has won first place and a $10,000 scholarship for her song, "Goodbye," in the 10th Annual John Lennon Scholarship competition. Recognizing the best and brightest young songwriters between the ages of 15 and 24, the scholarships were announced by Ralph N. Jackson, President of the BMI Foundation, Inc. Shackelton, a Minnesota native, will receive her award onstage in a special presentation during the BMI Pop Awards ceremony, to be held May 15 in Los Angeles at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The black-tie dinner recognizes the writers and publishers of the past year’s 50 most performed pop songs from BMI’s catalog of more than 6.5 million compositions. Tying for second place and each receiving $5,000 scholarships were Catawba College student Derek Daisey for his song “Where to Begin,” and Augustana College student Kyle Ferguson for his song “Don’t Forget to Breathe.” Honorable Mentions and $1,000 awards went to Berklee College of Music student Zach Hillyard for “Rain Like This,” and to University of Colorado Boulder student David Smits for “Overrated.” The 2007 judges included hit songwriter Jeff Cohen, Zomba Songs’ Jennifer Blakeman, Dimensional Music Publishing’s Neil J. Gillis, esteemed jazz specialist Suzan Jenkins, and Spirit Music Group’s Justin Kalifowitz. The preliminary judging panel included Charles Feldman, Samantha Cox, Wardell Malloy, June Neira, and Ben Tischker, all from BMI's New York-based Writer/Publisher Relations team. Thousands of students representing schools from every state participated in the competition. Established by Yoko Ono in 1997 in conjunction with the BMI Foundation, the John Lennon Scholarships have been made possible through generous donations from Ono with matching funds from Gibson Musical Instruments. Almost $200,000 has been awarded over the last ten years to students from select colleges, universities and music schools, and from national submissions from the National Association of Music Education/MENC chapters.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Funds(R), the nation's leading education-loan guarantor, announces the award of $489,750 in scholarships to help 329 low-to-moderate-income Hawaii residents pursue higher education. USA Funds awarded $180,000 in scholarships to 120 Hawaii residents who are first-time recipients of USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships(R) for the 2007-2008 academic year. In addition, USA Funds awarded $309,750 in renewal scholarships to 209 Hawaii residents who previously had received awards under the program. "Consistent with USA Funds' nonprofit mission to enhance higher-education preparedness, access and success, we are pleased to help these students pay for postsecondary education," said Henry L. Fernandez, USA Funds executive director, access and outreach. "During the past six years, USA Funds' national scholarship program has awarded more than $42 million in scholarships to more than 13,000 students nationwide." To qualify for the scholarships, students must come from households with annual incomes of $35,000 or less. Full-time and half-time undergraduate students, as well as full-time graduate and professional students, are eligible for $1,500 scholarships. If a scholarship recipient maintains a grade-point average of at least 2.5, the scholarship may be renewed annually until the student receives a degree or certificate, or the total amount awarded reaches $6,000, whichever comes first. For a list of first-time USA Funds Access to Education Scholarship recipients for 2007-2008, visit http://www.usafunds.org/scholarship. Headquartered in Indianapolis, USA Funds is a nonprofit corporation that works to enhance postsecondary-education preparedness, access and success by providing and supporting financial and other valued services. During the year ending Sept. 30, 2006, USA Funds guaranteed education loans totaling $27.3 billion for students and parents throughout the nation. USA Funds serves as the designated guarantor of federal education loans in eight states: Arizona, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada and Wyoming. USA Funds also invests more than $16 million annually in scholarships and outreach programs that advance its mission of support to higher education. For more information about USA Funds, visit http://www.usafunds.org/.
http://www.prnewswire.com BOSTON, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Carolyn's Compassionate Children (CCC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has announced 18 college scholarship recipients for 2007. This is the fifth year for the scholarship program. Carolyn Rubenstein, 22-year-old Duke graduate, founded CCC eight years ago. Over the past five years, CCC has awarded 80 college scholarships to childhood cancer survivors. A college scholarship committee selects recipients based upon personal character, financial need, successful completion of high school, and community service. Each recipient receives $1,000 for their college education.
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A student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Farm and Industry Short Course has been selected as the winner of the National Dairy Shrine's Iager Dairy Scholarship. Derrick Papcke of Elkhorn will receive $1,000 to be used toward his education, where he's majoring in dairy science and crop science studies. Papcke grew up on a 120-cow dairy farm, which runs 1,300 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa. This summer, he was elected Wisconsin State FFA Treasurer and currently serves as Elkhorn FFA Alumni Vice-President. Upon graduation in March 2008, he plans to return home to the farm and expand the dairy herd, eventually transitioning into the farm's ownership. Charles and Judy Iager of Maple Lawn Farms in Maryland are the sponsors of the scholarship program, which is given annually to an outstanding student in a two-year agricultural school who is pursuing a career in the dairy industry.
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A student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Farm and Industry Short Course has been selected as the winner of the National Dairy Shrine's Iager Dairy Scholarship. Derrick Papcke of Elkhorn will receive $1,000 to be used toward his education, where he's majoring in dairy science and crop science studies. Papcke grew up on a 120-cow dairy farm, which runs 1,300 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa. This summer, he was elected Wisconsin State FFA Treasurer and currently serves as Elkhorn FFA Alumni Vice-President. Upon graduation in March 2008, he plans to return home to the farm and expand the dairy herd, eventually transitioning into the farm's ownership. Charles and Judy Iager of Maple Lawn Farms in Maryland are the sponsors of the scholarship program, which is given annually to an outstanding student in a two-year agricultural school who is pursuing a career in the dairy industry.
By Leslie Griffy
Mercury News.com 8/14/2007 A scholarship fund in memory of a Los Gatos teen who died in a car crash last week has been set up at University of California-Davis, where the 18-year-old planned to study food science. Nate Mlyniec was driving his Volkswagen Passat on Summit Road early in the morning of Aug. 10 when he lost control of the car, ran off the road and hit a tree. He was pronounced dead at the scene sometime after the 2:15 a.m. crash, said California Highway Patrol officer Todd Thibodeau. The recent Los Gatos High School graduate planned to turn his love of chemistry and food into a career as a chef. He was set to attend the UC-Davis in the fall to study the science of food. Donations to a scholarship fund set up in Mlyniec's name can be mailed to Susan Collins, Student Affairs Development, UC-Davis, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616. Checks should be written out to the UC-Davis Foundation in memory of Nate Mlyniec.
August 8, 2007
strausnews.com ROSELAND — Alison LaChac, a resident of Sparta and a student at Seton Hall University, was recently awarded a $3,000 accounting scholarship from the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants in memory of Z. Thaddeus Zawacki. The scholarship is part of the organization’s annual scholarship program, which awarded more than $340,000 this year to 87 students from across the state.
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The News Journal delmarvanow.com A scholarship fund at Delaware State University will bear the names of two students and a friend who were killed in execution-style shootings in Newark, N.J., last weekend. Additionally, a campus fraternity is collecting donations for a relief fund to help the families of Dashon Harvey, Terrance and Natasha Aeriel, and Iofemi Hightower. Harvey, Terrance Aeriel and Hightower were killed in the shootings. Natasha Aeriel survived and is recovering. Harvey and the Aeriels were DSU students, and Hightower planned to join them on campus this fall.
August 07, 2007
thefabricator.com The Harris Products Group, Gainesville, Ga., has established a scholarship in honor of Larry Schweikert, who recently retired after 32 years with the company. The Larry and Patti Schweikert Scholarship will award $1,000 annually to a full-time business student at Gainesville State College. The company designs and manufactures cutting, welding, brazing, and soldering equipment; consumables; and gas distribution systems.
August 5, 2007
news4jax.com GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- University of Florida football coach Urban Meyer and hundreds others are helping to set up a scholarship fund in honor of a police officer who was killed while on duty after the Gators won the NCAA basketball championship. A drunken driver struck Lt. Corey Dahlem, 46, while he and other officers were clearing the streets following the post-win celebration in Gainesville. Dahlem's wife and two children said they were still taking the loss day by day. They said they were focusing on the criminal justice scholarship in their loved one's name that will carry on his passion for law enforcement.
August 2, 2007
newsday.com STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A Stamford man who drowned last month within weeks of earning five degrees from the University of Connecticut has been honored with a scholarship. A $250,000 Devin Gaines scholarship fund was established Thursday by several groups, including the Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program. Gaines, who drowned July 10 while swimming in a quarry in Deep River, participated for three years in the nonprofit program that helps minority middle and high school students pursue careers in science, math, technology and engineering.
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Aug 1, 2007 whsv.com A Clemson student from West Virginia is the first recipient of a scholarship established by the Dale Earnhardt Foundation. The $13,000 annual scholarship awarded to William Howard Bostic the Third of Sissonville is part of a new partnership between Clemson and Dale Earnhardt Incorporated. The NASCAR racing team's chief executive, Teresa Earnhardt, and Clemson President James Barker announced the partnership Tuesday. The partnership will give the racing team access to student and faculty engineering research, while students receive scholarships and internships. Bostic is a mechanical engineering major at Clemson who is interning this summer at the racing team's headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina.
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tribstar.com A scholarship fund has been established in honor of Carroll “Jack” Stark. He was a teacher and vocational director for Clay Community Schools for several years. Stark was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is fighting a courageous battle. Any recent high school graduate from the Wabash Valley who completed marketing courses and was a member of DECA, is eligible for consideration. The scholarship will provide $500 for the recipient. For further information contact Harold House at (547) 271-8933 or househarold@hotmail.com.
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OMAHA, Neb. – Marcia Kruger of Omaha recently made a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to create the Marcia Kruger Volleyball Scholarship. This gift creates the largest endowed scholarship in women’s athletics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Marcia Kruger, a longtime supporter of UNO athletics, saw this scholarship as an opportunity to encourage women to experience volleyball while also promoting support for women’s athletics.
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pnnonline.org The Association for Women Journalists-Chicago (AWJ-Chicago) has announced a new scholarship. The Joy Darrow Memorial Scholarship will be awarded in January to a woman journalism student pursuing a career in alternative journalism. Joy Darrow was a reporter, photographer, editor, as well as a human rights and racial justice activist known for her strong commitment to ethics, fairness, and equality. As a woman reporting and working on racial justice issues, she served as a role model to her family and thousands of others. Tracy Baim, publisher for the Windy City Media Group, and her siblings Marcy Baim and Clark Baim, are funding the scholarship in honor of their mother.
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pnnonline.org The Association for Women Journalists-Chicago (AWJ-Chicago) has announced a new scholarship. The Joy Darrow Memorial Scholarship will be awarded in January to a woman journalism student pursuing a career in alternative journalism. Joy Darrow was a reporter, photographer, editor, as well as a human rights and racial justice activist known for her strong commitment to ethics, fairness, and equality. As a woman reporting and working on racial justice issues, she served as a role model to her family and thousands of others. Tracy Baim, publisher for the Windy City Media Group, and her siblings Marcy Baim and Clark Baim, are funding the scholarship in honor of their mother.
Posted by: krkring on Monday, July 30, 2007
pnnonline.org The Association for Women Journalists-Chicago (AWJ-Chicago) has announced a new scholarship. The Joy Darrow Memorial Scholarship will be awarded in January to a woman journalism student pursuing a career in alternative journalism. Joy Darrow was a reporter, photographer, editor, as well as a human rights and racial justice activist known for her strong commitment to ethics, fairness, and equality. As a woman reporting and working on racial justice issues, she served as a role model to her family and thousands of others. Tracy Baim, publisher for the Windy City Media Group, and her siblings Marcy Baim and Clark Baim, are funding the scholarship in honor of their mother.
By: Jill Aho | News Editor Contestants should log on to My76Video.com to submit their 25-second commercial about 76 gasoline. Other prizes include a $10,000 scholarship, a $5,000 scholarship, a year's worth of gas and 20 $500 gas certificates. The deadline for submissions is August 3. Contestants must be at least 18 years of age and also must have at least one quarter left before graduation. Students may submit up to five videos. Winners will be selected by August 10. Winner of the year's worth of gas will be chosen through online voting at the Web site. Voting is from August 10 through September 7.
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By the JG/T-C jg-tc.com Local winners of Merit Scholarship awards financed by colleges and universities have been announced by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). These merit scholar winners join over 2,200 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in late May. Local winners of this award include Annie Liu of Charleston received the National Merit Northwestern University Scholarship; John McNally of Charleston received the National Merit University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Scholarship; and Lillian Bicknell of Lovington received the National Merit Truman State University Scholarship.
theday.com 7/23/2007 New London — The Williams Memorial Institute Alumnae Association, Pre-1955 Scholarship Committee, has selected the winners of its annual $1,000 scholarship. The following high school seniors were awarded $1,000 scholarships: Micah Evans, Norwich Free Academy; Sarah McGuire, Waterford High School; and Maeve (Molly) Powell, Waterford High School. W.M.I. was an all-girls high school in New London, before closing in 1955 to become the Williams School, which eventually became co-educational.
Published on 7/23/2007 theday.com East Lyme — The Connecticut Dunkin' Donuts Franchisees on June 28 awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Matthew Stern of Niantic. The award was a part of the 2007 Dunkin' Donuts Connecticut Franchisee Scholarship Program that provided a total of $100,000 in local scholarships to deserving high school seniors. This is the fourth year that Dunkin' Donuts has partnered with the Connecticut Association of Schools to administer the award. Stern was selected for the scholarship on the basis of a “well rounded” character, including a positive academic record, and demonstrated leadership in school and community activities. Over 4,000 Connecticut students applied for the 100 scholarships offered by the Dunkin' Donuts franchises.
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battlecreekenquirer.com The Winship Memorial Scholarship Foundation is announcing that 19 new recipients have been selected by the Board of Trustees to receive annual awards. The awards for new recipients range from $1,000 to $2,100 for the 2007/2008 academic year. In addition to the 19 new student awards, 61 continuing undergraduate students will participate in the program plus 22 students in graduate or post-graduate programs. The Foundation is in its 47th year of granting scholarships to graduates of the Battle Creek area public schools. During the time the Foundation has been in existence a total of 950 students have been granted awards totaling approximately $4,989,663.00.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced it has partnered with Oxford University across several initiatives, including the creation of the PGP® Scholarship at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). The OII will also gain access to PGP® encryption software for curriculum development and internship support. In addition, PGP Corporation's executives, technologists, and advisory members will be available to participate in Oxford policy forums. PGP Corporation is the first company to create a scholarship with OII.
Michael Szczepanski, who graduated in May from Cayuga Community College, earned associate's degrees from Cayuga in liberal arts, business administration, and criminal justice/police science. He has enrolled in a bachelor's degree program at SUNY Albany and plans a career in law enforcement. Cayuga County Sheriff David Gould presented Szczepanski with the scholarship, which was one of 32 awarded at community colleges statewide this year.
newarkadvocate.com A Utica student is the recipient of this year's most "twisted" college scholarship. Caitlin Saunders, of Ohio State University-Newark, recently was awarded a $5,000 regional scholarship from Auntie Anne's pretzels in recognition of her community commitments and educational accomplishments. Saunders is in her junior year and plans to pursue a degree in English. She is employed at the Auntie Anne's location at Indian Mound Mall. As part of the company vision to invest in employees, Auntie Anne's recognized five post-secondary students across the country for their outstanding achievements. Now in its second year, this annual scholarship is available to all Auntie Anne's employees as well as their dependents and grandchildren. Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a Pennsylvania-based franchisor that supports more than 925 Auntie Anne's pretzels locations worldwide.
http://media.www.dailyemerald.com By: Jill Aho | News Editor Contestants should log on to My76Video.com to submit their 25-second commercial about 76 gasoline. Other prizes include a $10,000 scholarship, a $5,000 scholarship, a year's worth of gas and 20 $500 gas certificates. The deadline for submissions is August 3. Contestants must be at least 18 years of age and also must have at least one quarter left before graduation. Students may submit up to five videos. Winners will be selected by August 10. Winner of the year's worth of gas will be chosen through online voting at the Web site. Voting is from August 10 through September 7.
The Kohl’s Kids Who Care® program provides an annual opportunity to recognize and reward young volunteers who transform theircommunities for the better.
By NATALIE DAVIS
mywebpal.com Communities in Schools of Laurens County is offering area high school graduates a scholarship opportunity.The goal of the Kaye B. Smith Foundation Scholarship, established in honor of Kaye and Hal Smith, is to reward one area college-bound high school student as a community role model.
CAYF scholarships are for $5,000 per year for four years of college. Thus, the total value of the award is up to $20,000 for the student who competes his or her degree.
Students must submit an essay of no more than 1000 words in answer to one of the two questions below:
1. An object in motion tends to stay in motion in the same direction unless acted upon by an external force. Tell us about an external influence (a person, an event, etc) that affected you and how it caused you to change direction.
Students must submit an essay of no more than 1000 words in answer to one of the two questions below:
1. An object in motion tends to stay in motion in the same direction unless acted upon by an external force. Tell us about an external influence (a person, an event, etc) that affected you and how it caused you to change direction.
By Matt Ryan ESSEX JUNCTION -- Kate Jerman, 26, an Essex Junction native, has been awarded a scholarship from the Point Foundation, an organization that grants scholarships to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
By Matt Ryan ESSEX JUNCTION -- Kate Jerman, 26, an Essex Junction native, has been awarded a scholarship from the Point Foundation, an organization that grants scholarships to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
By Matt Ryan ESSEX JUNCTION -- Kate Jerman, 26, an Essex Junction native, has been awarded a scholarship from the Point Foundation, an organization that grants scholarships to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
uspaacc.com The U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC) is accepting applications for the Bruce Lee Scholarship. Established in honor of the legendary movie actor, known globally for his martial arts films, the Bruce Lee Scholarship will provide financial assistance to a student with strong character, who has persevered and prevailed over adversity, and who will pursue post-secondary education at an accredited educational institution in the United States. The scholarship is valued up to $5,000.
deafqueer.org The Deaf Queer Resource Center is proud to announce the establishment of the Deaf Queer Youth Scholarship Fund, a new fund that awards monetary scholarships to deserving self-identified Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex college-bound youth.
deafqueer.org The Deaf Queer Resource Center is proud to announce the establishment of the Deaf Queer Youth Scholarship Fund, a new fund that awards monetary scholarships to deserving self-identified Deaf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex college-bound youth.
businesswire.com PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL), a television, digital media and online news organization that owns and/or operates 29 television stations and websites, today announced Stacie L. Thompson as the recipient of its 2007 Minority Scholarship and Training Program.
businesswire.com PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL), a television, digital media and online news organization that owns and/or operates 29 television stations and websites, today announced Stacie L. Thompson as the recipient of its 2007 Minority Scholarship and Training Program.
businesswire.com PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL), a television, digital media and online news organization that owns and/or operates 29 television stations and websites, today announced Stacie L. Thompson as the recipient of its 2007 Minority Scholarship and Training Program.
businesswire.com PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL), a television, digital media and online news organization that owns and/or operates 29 television stations and websites, today announced Stacie L. Thompson as the recipient of its 2007 Minority Scholarship and Training Program.
Avon wants to improve the life of women globally, through scholarships!
This annual gift from St. Louis Public School System provides financial aid to local high school students who plan to attend a UNCF member college or university. This scholarship is renewed annually. The GPA requirement increases to 3.3 after the sophomore year and 3.5 after the junior year.
uncf.org Scholarship for California students attending an UNCF institution or HBCU. Students must meet all criteria. US Citizen, permanent resident of CA; must be full time @ a UNCF college or HBCU's, Soph., Junior or graduating Senior; 2.8 GPA; Students must have work experience (part time employment, internship); Students must be involved in 1 community service organization.
uncf.org Scholarship for California students attending an UNCF institution or HBCU. Students must meet all criteria. US Citizen, permanent resident of CA; must be full time @ a UNCF college or HBCU's, Soph., Junior or graduating Senior; 2.8 GPA; Students must have work experience (part time employment, internship); Students must be involved in 1 community service organization.
By Errol Kiong
nzherald.co At 25, Alex Dunayev has a thriving software company, double degrees in commerce and science, and in two years' time, a Stanford University MBA.
By George R. Altman
al.com For her 18th birthday, Whitney Woodruff's friends and family gave her a necklace, money to buy clothes and a big greeting drawn in chalk on the sidewalk of her school. But her best present came from a Seattle billionaire she never met.
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BY SARAH KUBICK
delmarvanow.com Each year, an outstanding Eastern Shore senior is presented the Eastern Shore News Leadership Award.The award seeks to recognize students who excel in leadership through their community, school, and extra-curricular activities.
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Edward Jones is increasing the number of scholarships awarded through its existing program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis' College of Business Administration by donating $542,000 to the program. The existing Edward Jones scholarship program at UM-St. Louis awards two to three scholarships and corresponding summer internships each year. The recent contribution will enable the university to increase the number of awarded scholarships.
By Pat Sherman
By Yvonne Betowt
al.com Jeremy Heard was told by doctors at age 15 he had "growing pains" when his leg hurt and became numb. When Karlie Berard was 10, a physician said she had a cyst on her face. At age 5, Charity Hearne complained of stomach pains and doctors diagnosed a virus. But all three children actually had cancer. They eventually underwent surgery, chemotherapy and, in two cases, radiation.
By Tom Marshall
Sptimes.com One speaker called it a natural disaster. Another said it wasn't much of a problem at all. Such were the mixed feelings at this week's annual gathering of the Florida Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, as state and federal investigations continue into colleges' relationships with lenders.
By Kirk Cooper
Elpasotimes.com More than two dozen area high-school seniors were honored with $2,000 college scholarships Wednesday at UTEP's Tomas Rivera Conference Center. The El Paso chapter of Ronald McDonald House Charities awarded the scholarships to 25 graduating students from El Paso and Las Cruces. Applicants were selected based on their academic experience, community involvement and service, recommendations, a biographical essay and financial need.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards proposed an eight billion dollar college scholarship program today. Edwards' proposal is similar to what a high school in Snow Hill is doing for students in the impoverished rural community.
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Businesswire.com Scholarship America® today announced that its Scholarship Management Services® division plans to invest $1.8 million in information technology that will permit it to expand and enhance its services to current and new clients. Funding for the project comes through a grant from USA Funds®, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that serves as the nation’s leading guarantor of federal student loans. Scholarship Management Services administers USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships®, which provided nearly $8.2 million to nearly 5,500 students for the current academic year.
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Canada.com Cassandra Harding waited nervously, dreading the moment her athlete's body would betray her. Everyone would know her secret, including her track coaches at the University of Memphis -- where she was on a full athletic scholarship. "I didn't want to talk to anyone about it. I thought, what am I going to do now?" she said. "I didn't want to lose my scholarship." But she did. And that's exactly what her coaches warned would happen.
By MIKE BAKER
Myfoxwghp.com Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards proposed an $8 billion college scholarship program Friday as he touted the success of an identical pilot project in this impoverished rural community. The former North Carolina senator returned to Greene Central High School to announce that 74 percent of the school's senior class will use hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships to attend college this fall.
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The family of the late Ralph Engelstad, a former University of North Dakota goalie who financed the school's hockey arena nearly 10 years ago, announced Monday another major gift to UND, this one totaling $20 million for scholarships, athletics and endowments.
By Melanie Brandert
Argusleader.com An increase in the federal minimum wage could put work study programs in a bind at schools such as the University of Sioux Falls and Augustana College, where wages start anywhere from $5.75 to $6.25 an hour. South Dakota's version - approved by the Legislature this year - mirrors the federal proposal in that the minimum wage would rise to $5.85 an hour initially. A year after that, it would rise to $6.55. And after two years, it would be bumped to $7.25 an hour.
By Allison Sherry
Denverpost.com Abraham Lincoln High School senior Anahi Gutierrez has a 3.9 grade-point average and her hopes pinned on going to Regis University. She isn't a U.S. citizen, so she doesn't qualify for federal or state aid. She hasn't received help from private scholarships, and money from the Denver Scholarship Foundation that she thought would cover all her costs won't come close to paying the tuition at the private Denver university.
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON II
Myfoxmemphis.com The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday discussed a comprehensive bill that stresses better preparation for college rather than lowering standards to help students retain their state lottery scholarships.
By Nannette Miranda
ABCNews.com Some major changes could be in store for the student loan industry doing business at colleges and universities in California. An investigation into kickbacks that began with the New York Attorney General, has led to new legislation now working its way through Sacramento.
By Tom A. Peter
CBSnews.com Amid the climate of skyrocketing college tuitions and convoluted aid programs, a handful of universities are introducing simple and transparent financial aid programs. Among them: across-the-board tuition cuts, loan caps, and completely eliminating tuition for some.
By Mark Vierthaler
Kansan.com Getting caught smoking a joint could cost a college student thousands of dollars in federal financial aid. That’s why Carrie Wallace, Lawrence senior, and Dana Maher, Omaha, Neb., senior, are trying to raise awareness about a provision in the Higher Education Act that denies federal aid to convicted drug offenders. Wallace and Maher are trying to form a student organization in connection with the national Students for Sensible Drug Policy organization.
By Chris Stein
Dailynexus.com The University of California has begun reviewing its financial aid procedures in light of a New York State Attorney General inquiry that found evidence of several lenders giving kickbacks to schools for promoting their services. New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo recently uncovered financial agreements between lenders Education Finance Partners, Sallie Mae, Citibank and financial aid officers at colleges across the country, including Pepperdine University in Malibu, Washington University in St. Louis and Boston University.
By Andrew Williamson
Yaledailynew.com Let me tell you an open secret: In 1989, the Justice Department of the United States filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against all eight Ivy League schools and MIT under the Sherman Antitrust Act for collusion in the determination of need for financial aid students. The schools had been meeting every spring to discuss how much money they believed commonly admitted students could afford to pay for college. The Justice Department decided that this practice amounted to price fixing, and eventually all eight Ivy League schools signed a consent agreement with the department in 1991 not to engage in the activity.
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A federal appeals court has been asked to reinstate a lawsuit that seeks to strike down a law denying federal financial aid to students convicted of drug offenses. The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of students who lost their eligibility for college loans, argues that the federal law violates the constitutional ban on double jeopardy by subjecting students to a second criminal punishment after they have already served a court-imposed sentence.
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billingsgazette.net Wyoming's new Hathaway scholarship program is allowing the University of Wyoming to free up money elsewhere to recruit top students. Beginning last fall, Wyoming began offering qualifying high school graduates who attend UW or the state's community colleges up to $3,200 a year under the Hathaway program. The state ultimately plans to invest $400 million dollars in an endowment for the program.
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It's pretty much a given that any high school student applying for college must face the dreaded SAT. However, for his family, a more foreboding test is the 100-question Free Application for Student Aid, or FAFSA. It's often what leaves students and parents in the dust. Two members of Congress, authors of the College Aid Made EZ Act, cite a nonprofit study estimating that, of those students enrolled in college in 2004 and eligible for federal Pell Grants, about 1.5 million had not even applied.
By Kristin Bender
Insidebayarea.com A new program at the University of California, Berkeley, will match dollar-for-dollar contributions from staff and students to provide cash-strapped undergraduates and graduate students with financial aid. Campus officials announced this week that Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has set aside discretionary funds to match gifts and pledges from active or retired faculty or staff, students, or surviving spouses or partners of faculty and staff.
By Gary Aiken
TimesHerald.com As the May 1 deadline approaches, each college will begin issuing financial aid award letters to all deserving students. This will include many high-income families whose students attend higher-priced private colleges. Private colleges often discount tuition to attract good students from high-income families. Unfortunately, financial aid awards can fall short of what you anticipate.
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Billionaire media entrepreneur John Werner Kluge is giving $400 million to Columbia University for financial aid, one of the largest gifts ever to an American university, the university announced Wednesday. Kluge attended Columbia on scholarship and credits the opportunity with helping him become a successful broadcast entrepreneur.
By Leslie Carbone
Townhall.com American colleges accept a variety of financial incentives from some large student-loan companies, like Sallie Mae, to steer students to borrow from them, New York State Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo charged on March 15. Goodies include substantial cash payments, free trips to resort destinations for campus financial-aid officers, and company-manned call centers to answer students' financial-aid questions.
By Matthew Daneman
democratandchronicle.com Brockport spends more than $2.5 million a year on its top merit scholarships, all of which cover huge chunks of the cost of attendance. Rochester Institute of Technology's Presidential Scholarship provides up to $10,000 a year, based on students' high school academic records and recommendations. And all freshmen admitted to St. John Fisher College are considered for Fisher merit scholarships, most of which are $8,000 to $10,000 a year.
By Neema ROshania
Dailytargum.com The proposal for the New Jersey state budget for the fiscal year of 2008 includes a $12.3 million dollar increase to the University. In addition to the $12.3 million being allocated to the University, the proposed budget also includes a $15.5 million dollar addition to tuition aid grant programs. This includes need based financial aid merit based financial aid, and the Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF).
By Tom O'Neill
News.kypost.com Northern Kentucky high school students are staying in state for college at rates slightly higher than the state average and are doing better once they get there, according to a report released Monday by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. The 2004 Feedback Report comes at a time when education leaders in Frankfort are trying to get more Kentucky teens into college and to improve their chances of success there.
By Lauren Smith
Chronicle.com Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced on Wednesday a new online tool that will help students and their families better financially plan for college before a student's senior year of high school. The "Fafsa4caster," as the tool is called, will calculate a student's eligibility for federal student aid, including Pell Grants and subsidized loans.
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The Crown family of Chicago has contributed $5 million to Duke University to support scholarships and summer fellowships for undergraduate students, Duke President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday. The gift will provide $4 million in endowment for need-based undergraduate scholarships, $750,000 in endowment for undergraduate summer fellowships and $250,000 in endowment for athletic scholarships.
By Alejandra Diaz
news-press.com Desiree Stolte, 14, plays the saxophone in the Estero High School band. She was one of last year’s recipients of the Bonita Village String Band music scholarship for students interested in taking private music lessons. And, although Stolte jumped at the $1,000 scholarship, it seems that this year her peers in Bonita Springs, Estero and south Fort Myers just aren’t interested in the money or aren’t getting the message.
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Duke University will receive $10 million for scholarships as part of another gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Duke President Richard Brodhead said Tuesday the donation includes $9 million for financially needy undergraduates and $1 million for graduate students in the Fuqua School of Business. The money will be invested in an endowment to pay for scholarships.
By Diane Hirth
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BocaNews.com The task was to create a picture depicting the world of tomorrow. The hard part was the contestants only had four hours. Additionally, there was a lot riding on the finished product- $65,295 worth.Plus the competition was tough. There were 40 high school seniors vying for the prize of a full scholarship to Digital Media Arts College in Boca Raton.
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OSU’s Study Abroad office has $50,000 more scholarship money than the past year thanks to more student fees .The provost and senior vice president’s office increased the amount allocated, making the total for this year $90,000, said Gerry Auel, coordinator of the study abroad office.
The Daily Beacon The opportunity to study abroad can be elusive to students with meager financial means, but the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship helped two university students spend this semester overseas. Blake Bohanan, a senior in psychology, and Holly Dye, fourth-year in animal science/pre-veterinary medicine, both received the scholarship for this spring semester. Bohanan is currently studying in the Netherlands while Dye is in Australia. They are among 407 students around the country to receive the scholarship out of 1,189 applicants.
post-gazette.com More than $35,000 in scholarships, grants and awards are available to college-bound McKeesport Area High School seniors this year, because of the generosity of alumni and people in the community. A spokesman for the McKeesport High School Alumni and Friends Association, in announcing the opportunities, said letters detailing the scholarship program had gone out to parents and members of this year's graduating class.
wisconsinagconnection.com Twenty outstanding students pursuing careers in the beef industry have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship provided by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (CME) and the National Cattlemen's Foundation (NCF). The CME has sponsored this scholarship program for 16 years.
New York Life Insurance Company announced the names of the recipients of the third annual Cirilo A. McSween - New York Life - Rainbow/PUSH Excel Scholarship Award. The scholarships were given to five full-time college students who have achieved academic excellence and played an active role in their communities.
Sri Lanka Army Children of 130 War Heroes were presented National Savings Bank Foster Parents' Pass Books in addition to scholarships. Mowlana said it is a pleasure to have a President like Mahinda Rajapaksa and a First Lady like Shiranthi Rajapaksa who consider every child in this country like their own and it is the common intention of all people in this country to see the children of these War Heroes who laid down their lives in the name of the nation receive a good education to come up in life as bright and useful citizens.
By Christina Marnik YoungARTS, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, has chosen several area high school students as finalists in an initiative that offers scholarships to high school students involved in the arts.
Bizjournals.com First-year graduate students in science, engineering and biomedical research at Arizona's universities will get a boost with $4 million in scholarships offered by Science Foundation Arizona. The awards to 80 top students at Arizona State University, University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University will be announced Friday.
Georgiadogs.com Adrienne Elsberry, a freshman walk-on for the Georgia women’s tennis team, has been awarded a scholarship, head coach Jeff Wallace announced Monday.
By Jeremy Maready While the year is just beginning for most of us, it's already half over for Polk County's high school students. And while you're waiting for responses to college applications it's a good time to look at more scholarship possibilities. One source is the Florida Association of Realtors, which is holding its annual scholarship essay contest. It could mean a pay off up to $10,000.
By Tom Britt
AtFishers.com The Fishers Chamber of Commerce is offering two $1500 scholarships to HSE High School seniors as part of the Education Through Experience Program. Scholarships will be awarded to HSE students that have worked or volunteered in a Fishers business or community organization for a minimum of six months and plan to attend an Indiana college or university. Applications will be accepted through April 1 and awarded May 1.
CSPNET.com CEFCO Convenience Stores recently contributed $15,000 to establish the C.E. Fikes (CEFCO) Endowed Scholarship at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas.
Yahoo! News On Jan. 1 at 12 a.m., Mira Sol was the first baby born in San Antonio in 2007. One of Mira Sol's first gifts was a $10,000 scholarship to Incarnate Word University.
Thedailycitizen.com Bald Knob Middle School student Chord Cantrell moved one step closer to a $25,000 college scholarship after he won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee on Dec. 11.
It’s a long shot to win a College Match scholarship — only 102 were awarded this year out of 3,346 applicants — but Joshua Peagler had a good feeling about his chances Peagler, of Hermitage, said he remembered saying “I’m going somewhere” and celebrated for several minutes before he read the rest of the email and learned he had been accepted for a full, four-year scholarship — including room and board — to Columbia University in New York. The value of the prize is more than $160,000, College Match said.
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A voucher system is being introduced to schools in England for the first time in a bid to meet the educational needs of the brightest pupils.
TheBestGlobalNews.com In the competition for the best students, colleges and universities are always looking for an edge. This year, Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, is trying a novel approach: offering scholarships to prospective students who are also elite chess players. With the scholarships, officials hope to attract students who might not otherwise apply to the university, which is part of the state system.
The Daily Advance The pledge will be paid in increments over the next four years and will provide scholarships to ECSU students who are in their sophomore, junior or senior years. To be eligible for a scholarship, students must be majoring in accounting, business or industrial technology and be residents of either Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Northampton, Pasquotank or Perquimans counties.
By Mary L. Lawrence For the first time, high school students attending college or vocational school in the fall may submit a single online scholarship application to the Saginaw Community Foundation.
Sacbee.com Two students from California will receive full scholarships to attend the month long camp in Charleston, W. Va. Participants exchange ideas with scientists and other professionals from the academic and corporate worlds
By C. Bailey-Lloyd
Ezine Articles Typically, online colleges participate in many of the same grant and loan programs as traditional colleges and universities. Financial aid programs, such as the Federal Pell Grant is designed to help students with tuition cost. Another program, known as the Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant, commonly referred to as "FSEOG," is a grant program that is awarded and based on extreme financial need. This particular grant is often facilitated by students who are seeking a conventional or online degree.
Four Northern Territory language teachers have received national scholarships to travel overseas.
Four Northern Territory language teachers have received national scholarships to travel overseas.
ED.gov Four new states have been selected for participation in the State Scholars Initiative, a national business-education partnership effort designed to increase the number of students who take a rigorous curriculum in high school, the U.S. Education Department announced today.
Windsor Chamber of Commerce The Windsor Woman's Club, on behalf of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in Connecticut, is now accepting applications for both the Phipps Memorial Scholarship and the Dorothy E. Schoelzel Scholarship. These funds are available to enable Connecticut women to pursue advanced courses of study in accredited institutions of learning.
Modern Drummer Online The endowment creating the "Duke Kramer MBA Graduate Assistantship" will be held in perpetuity by the Georgia Southern University Foundation, with annual interest being used to award a scholarship each year to one or more deserving MBA applicants who meet the award criteria. The Scholarship Committee will select recipients based on academic qualifications, and the scholarship will be renewable for no more than two years.
By Kim Clark
U.S. News & World Report True: There is a lot of private scholarship money available for smart, hardworking students willing to seek out donors and enter contests. False: There is so little competition for those scholarships that it's easy to collect thousands of dollars in unclaimed awards. Service clubs, companies, and charities hand out more than $2 billion in private scholarships every year to more than 1 million college undergraduates. That means 1 out of every 13 students wins an outside scholarship to help defray tuition. And it's not chicken feed: The average award totals about $2,000.
By Kim Clark
U.S. News & World Report When the Breen twins of Lexington, Ky., started applying to college last fall, they just assumed that schools would look at their dad's new job as a controller for a hospital company in Tennessee, and the fact that their mom was going to lose her job as a special-education assistant when she moved to join their father at his new job, and provide enough grants to allow them to attend. "People in the middle class live pretty much paycheck to paycheck," says Matthew Breen, 19. "They can't come up with $35,000 a year. That's absurd." Then, in March, Matthew and Ryan started getting thick letters-and their first lesson in college economics. While some of the schools patched together enough grants so that they could just cover their costs, others gave the Breens little option but to take out big loans. "It was really unnerving," Matthew says. "Your financial situation doesn't necessarily dictate how much aid you'll get."
By Jane Brody
New York Times James, a tall, bright, personable 12-year-old, had been successful socially, athletically and scholastically all through elementary school. But everything fell apart when he had to move on to a large centralized middle school. Never a morning person, James now had to get up at 6 a.m. instead of 7:30 to catch the bus. Once at school, he had trouble finding his way around and arrived late for many of his classes. Rather than asking for reasons, which included being bullied and hit by several older boys, his teachers simply gave him late marks and detention.
By Lynnley Browning
New York Times When Clemson University received $10 million from the German automaker BMW in 2002, the money helped jump-start a $1.5 billion automotive research and educational center. It also led to a partnership that both the automaker and the university acknowledge has grown extraordinarily close.
By Rona Marech "Can I help you, hon?" It's one of the signature lines Jerry Silverman tosses at customers as he zooms through his children's clothing store, gray hair askew, box cutter in pocket, tape measure around his neck. The answer on a recent afternoon in downtown Baltimore was yes, indeed, they needed help. They needed to find a maroon skirt or green jumper or khaki pants or yellow shirts.
By Gina Davis and Liz F. Kay
Baltimoresun.com At Woodlawn Middle School, the computer touch-screens in the science labs will be nearly half the size of a chalkboard. Math will occupy twice as much class time for some pupils, who might also find themselves doubling up on reading and staying after school for more tutoring.And every teacher will be rated "highly qualified," thanks to a schoolwide overhaul that forced last year's instructors to reapply for their jobs.
By Bloomberg News
New York Times Public school teachers in Detroit voted yesterday to reject a contract offer and not report for their first day of work today. School is scheduled to start Sept. 5 for the 129,000 students in the Detroit Public Schools. "Teachers are not willing to continue absorbing the cost of the district's mismanagement any longer," Janna Garrison, president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, said in a statement.
By Sam Dillon
New York Times STERLING, Va., Aug. 25 - Some 55 million youngsters are enrolling for classes in the nation's schools this fall, making this the largest group of students in America's history and, in ethnic terms, the most dazzlingly diverse since waves of European immigrants washed through the public schools a century ago. Millions of baby boomers and foreign-born parents are enrolling their children, sending a demographic bulge through the schools that is driving a surge in classroom construction.
By Manny Fernandez
New York Times The City College of New York is home to about 12,500 undergraduate and graduate students, but over the years the Harlem campus has never really been a home to any of them. Overnight sleeping was unintentional, and unadvised. The rhythm of the college, the city's quintessential commuter school, was set not by the clock, but by the subway trains.
By Kat Glass
The Seattle Times An estimated 98 percent of the students are Mormon, some classrooms are converted into worship spaces on Sundays, and alcohol and drugs are banned from campus. So it's no surprise that Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, received the sacred No. 1 spot on the list of schools where "Students Pray on a Regular Basis" in the Princeton Review's 2007 college rankings
By Lynn Thompson
The Seattle Times The Everett School District announced a tentative agreement Thursday on a new three-year contract with its teachers union. A settlement would avert the potential for a strike, which had seemed more of a possibility as the negotiations, which began in April, dragged on this month with no resolution. With 18,000 students, Everett is one of the state's largest districts to go into the last weeks of August without a contract, according to the Washington Education Association (WEA), the state teachers union.
By Lawrence Kan The Seattle Times
Two university of Kansas freshman with perfect scores on their college entrance exams have received perfect Achievement Scholarship valued at $52.000 for four years of undergraduate study. Nameer Rahman Baker, an anthropology major from Manhattan, had a perfect score. Richard Zachary "Zach" Robinson, an engineering physocs major from Garnett, earned a perfect SAT score.
By Cornelia Dean
New York Times Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. The omission is inadvertent, said Katherine McLane, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, which administers the grants. "There is no explanation for it being left off the list," Ms. McLane said. "It has always been an eligible major."
By The Asoociated Press
New York Times The Education Department said it would arrange for free credit monitoring for as many as 21,000 student loan borrowers after their personal data appeared on its Web site. Terri Shaw, the department's chief operating officer for federal student aid, said the people involved were holders of federal direct student loans who used the department's loan Web site, www.dlssonline.com, from Sunday to Tuesday. Officials blamed a software upgrade that mixed up data for different borrowers when users accessed the Web site. Since Sunday, 26 borrowers have complained.
By Melanie Brandert
Arugus Leader The University of South Dakota in Vermillion was recognized as one of the top 248 universities in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report. USD is ranked in the annual college guide, "America's Best Colleges 2007," in the same class as the University of Arkansas, Texas Tech, Arizona State and Oklahoma State.
By Elissa Gootman
New York Times New York State, recently criticized for underestimating the number of unsafe schools it oversees, yesterday added 17 schools to the list of those considered "persistently dangerous," including 11 city schools for special education students. States are required to compile yearly lists of "persistently dangerous" schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Law, and each state defines the term differently. Since New York started identifying such schools in 2003, various public officials have ridiculed the lists for their brevity: Until this year, only seven schools had been identified as "persistently dangerous," and none were the "impact schools" that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had deemed particularly unruly. Those seven schools remain on the list.
By Clara Hemphill
New York Times AMY ANDINO grew up in the South Bronx, the child of a single mother from Puerto Rico. She went to Roman Catholic schools and the State University of New York at Albany. Now she is principal of the Academy of Public Relations, a tiny new public middle school not far from where she grew up. It was carved out of Intermediate School 184, one of the city's toughest schools. Just 32, Ms. Andino jumps Double Dutch with her pupils at lunchtime and encourages them to confide in her. "I'm giving them a different idea of what a principal can be," she said, stylish in big hoop earrings, a long black ponytail, a hot pink jacket, black ankle-length skirt and black spike heels. "I want to be a living example that you can break the cycle."
By Katie Hafner
New York Times When AOL researchers released three months' worth of users' query logs to a publicly accessible Web site late last month, Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell, downloaded the data right away. But when a firestorm over privacy breaches erupted, he decided against using it. "Now it's sitting there, in cold storage," said Professor Kleinberg, who works on algorithms for understanding the structure of the Web and searching it. "The number of things it reveals about individual people seems much too much. In general, you don't want to do research on tainted data."
By Diana Jean Schemo
New York Times WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 - Fourth graders in traditional public schools did significantly better in reading and math than comparable children attending charter schools, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Federal Education Department. The report, based on 2003 test scores, thrust the Education Department into the center of the heated national debate over school choice. It also drew a barrage of criticism from supporters of charter schools, the fastest-growing sector in public education, who sent out press statements casting doubt on the report's methodology and findings even before they were announced.
By Anica Butler
Baltimoresun.com Since Texas in 1987 first required students to pass a standardized test before being awarded a high school diploma, half the states have adopted similar requirements, with mostly successful results.Educators say the tests encourage students to take more rigorous courses and require teachers to work harder. But critics say they deny diplomas to the most disadvantaged students and force teachers to "teach to the test."
By Liz Bowie
Baltimoresun.com More than 70 percent of last year's ninth-graders who took state proficiency tests in algebra, government and biology have passed the exams - results state officials said mean most other members of the Class of 2009 should be able to pass the tests, as required, before they graduate. Across the state, the pass rates for last year rose in every county and in Baltimore City - in some cases significantly. In Baltimore County, the percentage of students passing the tests was up at least 10 points in all three subjects. In the city, the percentage of students passing algebra was up 15 points.
By Education news The University of Chicago boasts more than 70 Nobel laureates, and its math and economics departments are among the best in the world. But for years, the prestigious school apparently didn't have an accurate count of its faculty, number of classes or educational spending.
By Richard Levin
Newsweek International Edition Aug. 21-28, 2006 issue - As never before in their long history, universities have become instruments of national competition as well as instruments of peace. They are the locus of the scientific discoveries that move economies forward, and the primary means of educating the talent required to obtain and maintain competitive advantage. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.
By David Leonhardt
New York Times EARLY this morning, U.S. News & World Report will send e-mail messages to hundreds of college administrators, giving them an advance peek at the magazine's annual college ranking. They will find out whether Princeton will be at the top of the list for the seventh straight year, whether Emory can break into the top 15 and where their own university ranks. The administrators must agree to keep the information to themselves until Friday at midnight, when the list goes live on the U.S. News Web site, but the e-mail message gives them a couple of days to prepare a response.
By Bob Albrecht
Oregon Daily Emerald For the American college student, back to school basics used to mean number two pencils, notebooks and maybe a protractor -- today most are in the market for something substantially more high-tech and expensive. Yesterday's pen and pad has been replaced by a new notebook with a $1000 price tag and wireless access.
By Patrick Mc Geehan
NY Times Almost 5 million people over the age of 25 in the New York metropolitan area - more than a third of the region's population - had at least a bachelor's degree in 2005, according to the latest data from the Census Bureau. In Manhattan, nearly three out of five residents were college graduates and one out of four had advanced degrees, forming one of the highest concentrations of highly educated people in any American city.
By Nancy Gibbs, Nathan Thornburgh
www.time.com Competition for the Ivies is as fierce as ever, but kids who look beyond the famous schools may be the smartest applicants of all.
The Associated Press
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) - Faced with stiff competition for their traditional students, historically black colleges are now making a push to recruit Hispanics. Black colleges that want to shore up enrollment numbers are revising recruitment strategies to include more members of the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority. The campuses are hiring Hispanic recruiters, distributing brochures that feature Hispanic students and establishing special scholarships for Hispanics.
By Sam Dillon
New York Times WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - A federal commission approved a final report on Thursday that urges a broad shake-up of American higher education. It calls for public universities to measure learning with standardized tests, federal monitoring of college quality and sweeping changes in financial aid.
By Jane Gordon
New York Times STORRS, Conn. - Colleges have traditionally tempted top students with ivy-covered campuses, towering Gothic buildings and up-to-date student centers. But nowadays, there is a sense that a beautiful campus is not enough. An alluring college town is seen as necessary as well.
By Diana Jean Schemo
New York Times When the federal Education Department recently reported that children in private schools generally did no better than comparable students at public schools on national tests of math and reading, the findings were embraced by teachers' unions and liberals, and dismissed by supporters of school voucher programs. But for many educators and policy makers, the findings raised a haunting question: What if the impediments to learning run so deep that they cannot be addressed by any particular kind of school or any set of in-school reforms? What if schools are not the answer?
PRNewswire
New York Innovation Ads, Inc., owner of http://www.freescholarshipguide.com/, has announced that Teresa Belosi from St. Louis, Missouri has won the June 25, 2006 drawing for the FreeScholarshipGuide.com $5,000 Semi-Annual Scholarship Contest.
The Associated Press
MAPLEWOOD, Missouri (AP) - When a friend of Randi Miller's daughter started coming around to do laundry and sit down for family meals, it soon became clear the teenager hid a secret. Like more than 100,000 U.S. high school students, the teen was homeless, a stressful situation that makes her less likely to graduate and potentially leads to social and psychological problems.
By Rob Nelson
West Bank bureau As an incentive for Louisiana students to stay in state for college and to lure back those displaced by last year's hurricanes, the state is offering special scholarships aimed at replenishing its higher-education rosters. As part of its "Return to Learn" program, the state Board of Regents is offering scholarships of up to $1,000 to these groups: students who were enrolled in a state college or university when they were dispersed by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita; displaced Louisiana residents who would like to enroll in college; or displaced state high school seniors who graduated this year.
Contact: Terry Denbow, University Relations, (517) 355-2262, Denbow@msu.edu
EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has approved a new program that makes MSU a national leader in financial aid by offering grants and work study to eliminate loans for the neediest Michigan students enrolling this fall. At its July 17 meeting, the board approved, as part of the university's 2006-2007 budget, the Spartan Advantage, a program that will ensure grant aid and work study equal to the average tuition, fees, room and board, and books.
by Ted Nesi
The Sun Chronicle A steep rise in the federal interest rates on college loans took effect last week. The rate for the basic Stafford student loan rose from 5.3 percent to 7.14 percent on existing loans, and to 6.8 percent on new loans. The rate for PLUS loans, which are taken out by parents to help their children pay, rose from 6.1 percent to nearly 8 percent on old loans and to 8.5 percent on new loans. The new numbers mean that in just over two years, college loan interest rates have doubled.
Mineral Wells Index
The National Association of Postmasters of the United States/Texas Chapter 18 is recently announced that Jessica Lee Breeden, a 2006 graduate of Perrin-Whitt High School, was awarded a scholarship to the college of her choice in the amount of $1,000. Copyright © 1999-2006 cnhi, inc.
by TaMaryn Waters
Tallahassee Democrat A $500 scholarship check rested on top of a glass certificate and signified an unexpected blessing for Thaddeus Jones Jr. The scholarship was given through the Sedrick LeVon Washington Foundation, which was formed in 2004 after Washington was killed in Tallahassee. Washington's parents, Alicia and Eddie Gibson, were on hand to present the scholarship to Jones and read his letter, which had caught the attention of the scholarship committee.
by Deborah Kolben What most people don't know is that at home Belinda Chinea has an 18-year-old daughter, Cristen, who just graduated from the elite Stuyvesant High School with a 93.3 average and earned a full scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cristen was chosen as the valedictorian at P.S. 142, the local school on the Lower East Side where almost every student was poor enough to qualify for free lunch. She was the only student at her middle school to score high enough to get in to Stuyvesant, one of the most competitive public high schools in the city.
by Lynne Slack Shedlock
Locally, the University of Scranton and Marywood University have record application numbers this year. Keystone College's application numbers dropped five percent, but Robert Iannuzzo, vice president for enrollment, said the decrease was intentional and done through a different marketing approach. "We had more applications than we could handle last year," Mr. Iannuzzo said, adding he views Internet applications with caution. Students send out so many that it's questionable how serious they are about a school, he said. Another driving force is the "echo baby boom." Baby boomers having children has increased the number of students graduating from high school, said Joe Roback, University of Scranton's associate vice president of admissions and undergraduate enrollment. Mr. Roback said the echo baby boom is expected to peak next year and slowly wind down by 2012.
WMU News
KALAMAZOO - During its July 14 meeting, Western Michigan University's Board of Trustees approved an estimated general fund operating budget of $295 million for the coming year that calls for nearly $7 million in targeted budget reductions aimed at controlling operating costs to limit the level of tuition increases needed.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - Northwestern University began sending letters and e-mails Friday to about 17,000 student applicants whose personal information may have been stolen from the university's computer system. The affected computers were in the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. The computers were shut down after the security breach was discovered.
Anyone who thinks their records may have been involved in this incident can call 888-209-0097 or e-mail: university(underscore)enrollment@northwe stern.edu.
by Shawn Vestal
SpokesmanReview.com "As the prices go up, more of us need assistance, but we don't qualify,". High costs and the trials of a fractured financial aid system are two of the less controversial targets in a draft report prepared by a federal commission examining higher education in America. But the Commission on the Future of Higher Education's report takes other big swipes at the system - criticizing it for being costly, inefficient, unaccountable and out of reach for too many poor students. "The commission's draft report is simultaneously saying colleges should cut costs and improve the undergraduate experience," said Sherman Dorn, an associate professor at University of South Florida who blogs regularly about education policy.
by Christine Richard
Bloomberg News Soaring tuition costs are driving the boom in federally financed and private loans, 75 percent of which Wall Street transforms into debt securities. About $44 billion of bonds tied to student loans were sold in the first half of 2006, Moody's Investors Service says. At that rate, sales will top last year's record $73 billion. GE, the world's second-largest company by market value, said last month it will start offering education financing. Goldman Sachs, working with billionaire Robert L. Johnson, has a similar plan to make student loans. The bonds are hot because they're coveted by lenders and investors alike for their relatively high yields and default protection.
PRNewswire
ING, in partnership with Live Nation and the Hispanic Scholarship Foundation, today awarded the first of 20 scholarships linked to the Juntos en Concierto 2006 tour. Today also marks the first date of the cross-country tour featuring three of Latin music's most popular artists. ING, the global financial services company, has become the first sponsor of the popular Juntos en Concierto 2006 tour, a groundbreaking move among financial services companies. SOURCE: ING Related links:
By Jennifer A. Kingson
New York Times The escalating costs of higher education may be a burden to young adults and their parents, but they are an opportunity for student loan companies, both specialty finance companies and the big banks. More young people are going to college, but federal grants are not rising commensurately. The maximum that students can borrow in federally guaranteed loans has remained relatively flat for years. And on July 1, the government raised interest rates on these loans for the second consecutive year. While the student loan market has become more competitive, the biggest lender, the SLM Corporation, better known as Sallie Mae, has been widening its reach and depth in ways that make some traditional banks squirm.
PRNewswire
The Vantagepoint Public ICMA-RC and its Board of Directors established the Fund in 2001 on the principle that public sector employees, who give so much to their communities and who pay the ultimate price for their service, should have greater security through education scholarships for their survivors. Joan McCallen, President of the Fund and CEO of ICMA-RC opened the ceremony stating, "We believe there's no better cause than to help survivors of public service employees who lost their lives serving the community." This year's keynote speaker, Terrance W. Gainer, US Capitol Police, Chief of Police (ret.) paid tribute to the public servants and their survivors, saying, "These fallen heroes will have proven to have led a good life if their survivors continue their legacy through education." Gainer went on to say, "The Vantagepoint Memorial Scholarship Fund helps the recipients do just that." With this year's awards, the Fund has provided 119 students with $430,000 in scholarships. SOURCE: ICMA-RC Related links:
by Jared A. Taylor
INfozine Organized by Campus Progress, which "works to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses nationwide," according to its Web site, the panel discussed problems in financing college, though it did not offer a remedy to the approximately 100 students in the audience. "I would suggest thinking about taking the money that is there and repackage it and rethink it to tackle the problems you are more concerned about," he said. Draut said the spiraling cost of higher education has more than just an economic impact. "Education isn't just about earning more money," she said. "It's about maintaining a well-functioning democracy."
by Julia Silverman The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. - After years of rising tuition at state universities, leaving students to emerge from college armed with both diplomas and crushing debt, members of a task force on college costs have crafted a new model for how Oregon students pay for higher education. Under the proposal, students would be expected to contribute the equivalent of their salaries from working 40 hours a week during the summer, and 10-15 hours a week during the school year, toward their college costs - about $4,750 from a minimum-wage job. Students at four-year schools would also have to contribute an additional $2,750, from savings or borrowing. (Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
PRNewswire
Today, the Southern California Mercedes-Benz dealers together with Mercedes- Benz USA (MBUSA) helped bring that dream closer for one lucky fashion design student. Bopha Sar of Littleton, New Hampshire was awarded the $20,000 DRIVE YOUR FUTURE Design Awards LA scholarship to attend FIDM/The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles this fall. A graduate of Littleton High School, Sar competed against other college- bound high school seniors across the country and won the award based on her strong creative portfolio, academic record, leadership and participation in school and community activities. SOURCE: Mercedes-Benz USA Related links:
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A week of exciting competition ended in triumph for several high school speech and debate students from across the United States. More than 2,800 qualifiers from nearly 950 schools across the nation competed in Grapevine/Colleyville, Texas, for awards and scholarships at the Lincoln Financial Group(R)/National Forensic League National Speech Tournament. Twenty-three competitors earned college scholarships from Lincoln Financial Group for their efforts and skills in public speaking and debate. SOURCE: Lincoln Financial Group
by Charles Dervarics
Cox, Matthews & Associates and Gale Group The federal government should increase need-based financial aid for postsecondary education, but reject controversial ideas to introduce standardized testing into colleges and universities, witnesses told a Bush administration review panel at two recent hearings. U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' Commission on the Future of Higher Education has held public forums nationwide after its leaders said they were considering wide-ranging changes in higher education. Among the changes discussed were redesigning the Pell Grant and requiring standardized testing for college students. The standardized testing idea in particular was met with little enthusiasm at the commission hearing held last month, although the practice has become standard at the K-12 level as a result of the No Child Left BehindAct.
by Marisa Schultz
The Detroit News The Michigan State University Board of Trustees will vote today on a 5.9 percent tuition increase for Michigan resident students and a 6.9 percent increase for nonresident students. The proposed increase is on par with the eight other state universities that have increased tuition this year, ranging from 4.9 percent at Saginaw Valley State University and 8.75 percent at Michigan Technological University.
by Johnny Jackson and Jeffery Whitfield Student borrowing has increased substantially from 1993 to 2004, though levels vary for graduates of different degree programs, according to a brief from the American Council on Education Center for Policy Analysis. The center focuses on issues such as financial aid. Greene, a full-time student at Valdosta, said that planning to pay for college is more than just a passing concern for her. For students like Greene, scholarships are the best means of educational funding, said Ntasha Hodge, a counselor and scholarship coordinator at Stockbridge High School. "I definitely suggest that students start early on in the process of finding financial aid and scholarships," she said. "Most scholarship deadlines are early. They have to start now, as early as the summer."
It is not too late for student borrowers to receive the funding needed for their fall semester tuition at graduate school. Phoenix-based NextStudent, a premier education funding company, offers federal Graduate PLUS Loans that will finance up to the full amount of graduate school at a rate as low as 8.25 percent.
The Graduate PLUS Loan features a variety of incentives and benefits that further help graduate students with their loans and repayment options. Contact: Jessica Black This press release distributed by PRWEB (http://www.prwebdirect.com/), a service of eMediaWire. SOURCE: NextStudent
AAJA, the nation's largest professional organization for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) journalists, has given a total of $1.2 million to more than 500 students nationally and through its local chapters in an effort to encourage young AAPIs to pursue careers in journalism.
For more information, visit http://www.aaja.org/. SOURCE: Asian American Journalists Association
By Rebecca Trounson and Joe Mozingo
Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - UCLA's acting chancellor said he is taking steps to protect the university and its faculty from extremists in the animal-rights movement, after an attempted firebombing near the home of one UCLA researcher and repeated harassment that pushed another professor to halt his primate research. |
