The Sallie Mae Fund — the philanthropic arm of the nation’s leading saving-and-paying for college company, Sallie Mae — today reminded students and families that several important scholarship application deadlines are right around the corner. For those students looking to apply for The Sallie Mae Fund “First in My Family” or “American Dream” scholarships, applications [...]

The 501(c)3 Glimpse Foundation has launched a new online store that consolidates the resources it offers to further cross-cultural understanding and to help prepare students and volunteers for their overseas experiences. The store is available here: http://store.glimpsefoundation.org
Among the new store’s many offerings are subscriptions to Glimpse Quarterly, the Foundation’s print publication, which features first-person narratives [...]

One Western Illinois University alumnus is giving back to the community in a big way – he donated his childhood home, located at 333 N. Ward St. in Macomb.
Dr. Ken and Betty Wright of Blandinsville decided to offer the house to the university because of Ken’s life-long schooling in the educational community of Western.
“We have [...]

DeVry University, working with Banco Popular, one of the leading community banks in the United States, has announced an extension of the scholarship application deadline for the Dream Scholarship available to high school seniors.
Potential students now have until March 30, 2007 to apply for the tuition awards.
These partial tuition scholarships, targeted to middle and lower-income [...]

The University of Illinois recently received a gift of $1 million for use in a scholarship.
Charles Hammond, Jr., 79, donated the money, which will be used to create a scholarship intended for students from Fulton County who attend the University, with preference to students from Hammond’s hometown of Canton, Ill.
Andy Schroeder, a counselor at [...]

The University of Kentucky was listed among the nation’s top 20 public research universities in a new national ranking based on faculty scholarly output.
UK was tied for 19th among public universities and tied for 41st among all universities in a rating of faculty scholarly activity in almost 7,300 doctoral programs nationwide.
Two UK departments were ranked [...]

First-year agricultural students at two-year colleges are invited to apply for 50 $750 scholarships from the CHS Foundation, which recently expanded its Two-Year College Scholarship Program to provide greater financial assistance to more students. The CHS Foundation is the major giving entity of CHS Inc., a leading energy and grain- based foods company with a [...]

The Peg Bond Scholarship will be awarded this spring to a student pursuing studies in the visual or performing arts at a four-year college, university or professional school.
Students must be residents of the city of Batavia or Batavia School District 101. The scholarship is administered by the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley.
Applications are [...]

A scholarship named for a slain Illinois State University student has received more than 22-thousand dollars in donations.
The Olamide E-Adeyooye Memorial Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 2007 during ISU’s 150th anniversary celebration.
The funds were raised through the school’s student foundation.
Adeyooye was abducted and killed in October 2005. Her body was found [...]

Diana Kang from the University of Texas at Arlington is the first recipient of the Kimball Office Scholarship Fund. Created by the Trustees of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Foundation and office furniture manufacturer Kimball Office, the award recognizes a student of African, Asian, Latin, or Native American heritage for both showing design talent [...]