The Lincoln City Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) contributed $4,000 to the Oregon Coast Community College Foundation for four $1,000 scholarships for female students at OCCC. Tabitha Arnold of Lincoln City is the fourth receipt to be awarded for the 2005 -06 school term. The previous AAUW recipients, Karla Schafer, Melissa [...]

The Zonta Club of Leelanau County, an international women’s service club, will offer a scholarship aboard the Inland Seas Education Association’s
schoolship Inland Seas to a young woman in the ninth, tenth or eleventh grades.
As part of the Zonta-sponsored “Young Women in Science” program, the scholarship recipient will spend two days sailing aboard the Inland Seas [...]

A lack of clinical space, not students or faculty, prevents Marion Technical College from expanding its highly rated nursing program, which has a year-and-a-half waiting list of prospective pupils.
A class of 64 students Saturday graduated at MTC and will receive associate’s degrees in nursing as they prepare to take the NCLEX-RN state board licensure exam, [...]

Students at Arkansas State University Mountain Home will receive additional scholarship support due to the generosity of Rhonald and Betty Morris of Dallas. The Morrises recently endowed two scholarships to benefit graduates of Baxter County.
The scholarships award $2,000 annually to two different high school graduates of Baxter County who meet specified academic merit and financial [...]

Hundreds of college-bound students whose parents draw state salaries could find themselves disqualified from receiving private financial aid this year because of the recently passed “Ethics in Government” initiative.
Amendment 41, approved by voters in November, bars state employees and their dependents from receiving “gifts” of $50 of more.
Curt Martin, director of financial aid at Mesa [...]

Three Gwinnett County students are among the top 40 high school scholar-athletes and 12 student managers from Georgia picked by the Chick-fil-A Bowl as scholarship winners.
Bryce Dykes of Norcross High School, Kris Swanson of Central Gwinnett High School and Sarah Miller of Central Gwinnett High School were selected based on their grades, school involvement and [...]

A $1,000 scholarship being given by Chevron at the University of Colorado’s school of engineering and applied sciences is available – if you happen to be a supporter of “GLBT” issues.
“Unbelievable,” is how one parent put it after a son, an engineering student in Boulder, Colo., was notified by the school through an e-mail of [...]

Western Nevada Community College students got the opportunity to personally thank the individuals who are helping them earn a college degree at the WNCC Foundation’s sixth annual Scholarship Appreciation & Recognition Reception.
The event celebrated the success of 175 students who received a total of $156,000 in scholarship awards. Foundation funds contributed $109,600 of this total [...]

Evening Degree Program of High Point University congratulated this year’s Educational Enhancement Scholarship Recipients during a reception at the High Point Campus in the Slane University Center. This is the program’s first year awarding the scholarship. The scholarship was open to all evening degree program students. Scholars were selected based on letters of recommendation, [...]

The VFW Post 648 and its Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, announce this year’s “Voice of Democracy Scholarship Competition.”
Local students are eligible to compete in this annual audio essay program.
Scholarships and awards are made within the local post, state and national VFW.
The first-place winner in each state receives a minimum of a [...]