Quietly going about their duties, the Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Pink Ladies shed sunshine through the hallways, relieve nurses of some minor jobs and offer patrons a wide variety of unusual items in their Gift Shop. They also raise funds for a scholarship for the Licensed Vocation Nursing Program at Cerro Coso Community College.
This year, the [...]

Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation will again award Dora Maclellan Brown Scholarships for graduate education in Christian ministry.
The scholarships are named in memory of the late Mrs. Brown, daughter of the founder of Provident Life and Accident and Insurance Company, who helped educate students until her death in 1974. Using her legacy, the foundation has since [...]

The word “affordable” usually isn’t used to describe higher education.
But a scholarship for young entrepreneurs is helping to bridge the gap between community college and a four-year-degree in Maryland.
Upper Marlboro resident Trevor Young tried to start college after high school but didn’t have enough money. So instead, he tried his hand at a number of [...]

Bulgaria’s legend in journalism Kevork Kevorkyan has bestowed the first scholarship named after his late wife Nadezhda Dzheneva to a fourth-year student in radio journalism at the Sofia University.
The scholarship is granted for special achievements and amounts to BGN 1,500. It was officially handed in to happy student Georgi Savchev during the official ceremony dedicated [...]

The amount of the scholarship is $500 awarded on a one time per winner basis towards the tuition cost of the estimated 39 week OCB program.The scholarship will be awarded to a student who is a resident of a county within the recognized DMA of the Toledo Market.The selection of the winner will be based [...]

Michelle Rufus has been a Hillside Work Scholarship participant since 7th-grade.
“I met Mr. Brown, he was my advocate at Levey, my middle school,” Rufus said. “I needed help doing extra work in class so he helped me to get into the program which helped me with my work and interacting with other people.”
The program seeks [...]

A Valley woman is receiving a distinct honor. 896 applicants from 340 universities in the United States applied for the Rhodes Scholarship. Julie Veroff from Fresno is one of 32 men and women chosen to actually receive the scholarship for 2007.
The flute and the piano are just a few things the 21-year-old Stanford University senior [...]

The Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Center for Education and Teaching Excellence at Framingham State College awarded the Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Scholarship to six Framingham State students, including Madison Dennis of Oxford, Kara Giuliano of Foxborough, Carolyn McGrath of Westborough, Christine McMahon of Framingham, Meghan Patrick of North Grafton and Jillian Sharpe of Needham.
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Wisconsin high school students ages 16 to 18 who are active in their school or community can apply for a $1,000 scholarship offered by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families.
A short application, a 500- to 1,000-word essay and two letters of reference are required. There are no GPA requirements, but current high school transcripts [...]

SWITZ CITY - The Greene County Foundation is hosting a county-wide scholarship and career fair from 5-9 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at the Greene County Cooperative Extension Service at 4-H Fairgrounds.
Many colleges, universities and employers will be on hand to answer questions from Greene County high school students and their parents about programs and [...]

The Arizona Department of Commerce also was asked Wednesday to determine whether the procedure followed by Gov. Janet Napolitano in making the designation is the best approach for the state.
The Commerce Department reports to the governor.
The request from Darcy Renfro, Napolitano’s policy adviser on higher education and economic development, comes in response to a story [...]

Phoenix-based NextStudent, a premier education funding company, offers a Graduate PLUS Loan Program that extends directly to graduate and professional students the same benefits that traditional PLUS loans extend to the parents of undergraduate students. As a federally sponsored student loan that offers generous borrowing limits, student borrowers can cover the full cost of their [...]