Members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union Local 240 recently contributed $17,500 to endow a new scholarship fund at the Montana State University-Billings Foundation. The IATSE Local 240 Endowed Scholarship is open to all theatre majors at MSU-Billings, with preference given to IATSE members, their children, or spouses. Recipients must have financial [...]

The Luann Dummer Center for Women provides an annual scholarship of $2,000 to a qualified women’s studies major or minor.
To apply for this scholarship, students must:
1. Have officially declared a major or minor in women’s studies
2. Have completed or will be enrolled in WMST 205, Foundations of Women’s [...]

Eastern Michigan University Alumna Sandee Rodriguez is creating a scholarship for disabled students in her name.
Rodriguez was registered with Access Services, a peer support group that promotes and encourages diversity, after she was in a car accident in 1995. The accident disabled her, causing memory loss and other injuries. Now she is giving back to [...]

Congressional leaders are moving briskly ahead on bills that would dramatically cut interest rates on student loans for some borrowers.
Although the measures have yet to become law, one has been approved in the House and a similar proposal has passed a key Senate committee. Experts say this is a sign that lending reforms are likely [...]

It was all women musicians who played to raise money for “Bread Upon the Waters,” a scholarship fund for women who want to attend the University of Pennsylvania and want to do it when they’re older.
“It’s a unique scholarship for women 30 and older. It’s the only scholarship of its kind that we have been [...]

Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists, Fort Worth Chapter.
Deadline: Feb. 19
Award: $500-$1,500
Description: The Texas Gridiron Scholarship is available to journalism students from Texas or attending college in Texas.
To be eligible, you must be taking a minimum of six credit hours per semester and have at least a 2.25 GPA.

Student-loan borrowers cheered last month when the House voted to halve interest rates on federal loans. But don’t start celebrating just yet.
The bill, called the College Student Relief Act of 2007, would reduce the current rate on subsidized Stafford loans from a fixed 6.8 percent to a fixed 3.4 percent over five years.
Subsidized Stafford loans [...]

Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation announced it received a bequest from Marion “Bunny” Hoover of almost $1 million to provide an endowment fund for annual scholarships benefiting graduates of North Platte High School as well as students at North Platte Community College.
The announcement was made at the community foundation’s celebration event Saturday night in North Platte.
In [...]

Standards could be lowered for students with the HOPE Lottery Scholarship. The Tennessee Legislature is expected to look at the qualifiers.
Memphis City Schools are lobbying for the standards to be lowered as well.
A recent study shows half of college students lost their Hope Lottery Scholarships after their first year. That number now [...]

FLINT - Sydnee Adams, 17, of Swartz Creek was thrilled to be offered a $6,000 scholarship at the University of Michigan-Flint, with a chance to win a full ride.
Even more thrilled was her father, Joe Adams, an electrician for General Motors.
“That’s my girl,” he said, smiling at Sydnee, a senior at Swartz Creek High School. [...]

The Edward C. Farrell Memorial Scholarship Foundation is accepting applications for its $1,000 scholarship to be awarded in June.
Eligible applicants must be Ledyard residents and seniors at Ledyard High School, The Williams School, an area technical school or St. Bernard High School.
Applicants will continue their education at a college, university or technical school.

There is so much information about college financing that it’s hard to choose which website or books to read. But, as one Chinese proverb goes, “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
In the case of paying for college, we’d want to ask Ben Kaplan. Kaplan amassed nearly $90,000 by winning more than two [...]