Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted on Monday announced the creation of a $100 million scholarship program for students attending Ohio colleges and universities.
The Choose Ohio First Scholarship will be an amendment to the state operating budget for 2008-09, which is under consideration in the House. The scholarships target students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering [...]

Rotary Club members of District 6600 are seeking four professionals to visit India in January 2008 as part of the Group Study program of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.
Through the program, teams of young professionals from two different countries exchange all practices of another country, while sharing information about their homeland.
The purpose of the [...]

High school seniors planning to study information technology at Bellingham Technical College or Whatcom Community College this fall may apply for a $500 scholarship.
The scholarship is sponsored by the Whatcom Tech Prep Consortium and the Northwest Chapter of the Technology Alliance Group.

Applications are currently being accepted for the Steven M. Walsh Memorial Scholarship with the deadline for submissions set for April 30.
Mr. Walsh, who passed away in 2004 after a lengthy battle with cancer, was a prominent fixture in both the Fall River and New Bedford communities. A graduate of New Bedford High School, where he [...]

The Student Government Association (SGA) at St. John Fisher College announced Wednesday the creation of a scholarship endowment fund that will award two $1,000 scholarships and a $500 book grant annually.
The Student Activities Fee will fund the scholarships. For the past several years, the money collected from the Student Activities Fee has accumulated. According to [...]

Accenture is now accepting applications for its scholarship fund program for American Indian students. The Accenture American Indian Scholarship Fund supports students with demonstrated leadership ability and financial need entering fields of professional study.
These scholarships are part of the company’s commitment to the American Indian community, and represent just one example of Accenture’s dedication [...]

Each year the University of San Diego, San Diego, California awards Graduate Law Merit Scholarships to students admitted to the Comparative Law program based on the merits of the applicants’ scholastic and work experience.
Candidates are considered for the scholarship after they have been accepted into the program. Comparative Law students study side-by-side with J.D. and [...]

ScholarshipPoints.com, a free service from the Student Loan Network, has announced its first quarter scholarship winners. Chris Wendorf, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, received the first-place scholarship of $1000; Jonald Allan Gonzalez, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, received the second-place $500 scholarship; and Helen Hawkey, University of Pittsburgh, took the third-place $250 scholarship. All three [...]

A special panel has recommended dropping the minimum grade-point average college students must maintain to keep their state lottery scholarships, but the idea is drawing mixed reviews from Tennessee lawmakers.
Gov. Phil Bredesen and state lawmakers called for a review of the lottery scholarship program earlier this year after the Tennessee Higher [...]

Attorney General Troy King issued an opinion this month saying a scholarship program that has used $500,000 in Anniston city funds to help high school students pay for college is unconstitutional and should be stopped.
The Anniston City Schools Foundation Next Start scholarships have helped 480 Anniston High School graduates go to college since 1998, but [...]

The Pauls Foundation, which helps fund arts organizations, has established a scholarship in memory of its director, Ralph Arnold, at two Chicago institutions.
Arnold, a professor whose love of the arts transcended his professional life, passed away May 10, 2006.
The foundation has endowed $100,000 in Arnold’s name at The Chicago Academy for the Arts, 1010 W. [...]

WSB-TV Channel 2 and the Georgia Lottery Corporation are proud partners with Clark Atlanta University. Since 1993, annual scholarships have been awarded to deserving Clark Atlanta University students who set high professional standards for themselves in their pursuit of broadcast journalism careers.
This year the scholarship recipient is Ryan Hirsch. Mr. Hirsch will graduate this May [...]