The Fort HealthCare Partners Scholarship Committee has announced this year’s award recipients. Five area students received scholarships to support their continuing education in the health care field.
Nursing scholarships are awarded to qualified candidates who are pursuing a career in health care, students currently enrolled in an associate degree nursing program and to students pursuing an [...]

The Amber Pizzo Memorial Scholarship is awarded to graduating Governor Livingston High School students who plan to pursue a career in early childhood education.
The Amber Pizzo Memorial Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to the memory of Amber Pizzo, a member of the GLHS Class of 1996. The Fund has been established to assist [...]

Western Governors University, the leading non-profit online university, will extend the deadline for the WGU Reservists and National Guard Scholarship to June 30, 2009. This scholarship is designed to help members of the Reserves and National Guard attend college online.
The WGU Reservists and National Guard Scholarship is valued up to $1,500 and can be used [...]

In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power. Ifill argues that the black political structure formed during the Civil Rights Movement is [...]

Only weeks before the 2008 presidential conventions, political veterans, including Representative John B. Anderson, Alderman Edward Burke, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Richard Lugar, Senator George McGovern and Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III, met today to recall the old presidential nominating system and the profound changes in the way America selects its presidential candidates. The discussion, [...]

Twenty-five students from rural Arizona were recently awarded the Rose Mofford Scholarship. The Governor Rose Mofford Scholarship Fund was established in 1997 to help students of high ability in rural Arizona start their college careers as well as memorialize the name and reputation of one of Arizona’s most prominent citizens. The fund was established at [...]

Governor Timothy M. Kaine announced today that Virginia nursing students may be eligible for scholarships of up to $40,000 through the Commonwealth of Virginia Nursing Scholarship Program.
The state is facing a shortage of nearly 16,000 nurses by 2015, the governor said in making the announcement.
Administered by the Virginia Department of Health, the $200,000 initiative is [...]

Northern Marianas College may now get a loan for its campus renovation plans.
The governor signed House Bill 15-222 on Thursday immediately after his return from a Japan trip.
Now Public Law 15-58, the measure grants NMC legislative authorization to enter into a commercial loan agreement for $250,000 and to secure the loan with its cash deposits.
The [...]

Lawmakers from all corners of Oregon are backing a new approach to college financial aid as the elixir to the state’s college-affordability woes.
But the plan is running into an affordability gap of its own, after fiscal analysts found that the costs could be 30 percent higher than originally thought.
On Friday, the House Education Committee unanimously [...]

The Joe Lurie Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Fellowship was launched at the UC Berkeley International House’s 19th Annual Celebration & Awards Gala Thursday.
The fund aims at providing an I-House room and board award to an entering first year returned Peace Corps doctoral student at UC Berkeley. The UC Berkeley Graduate Division will match this annually [...]