A majority of parents (61 percent) are not letting the recession change their plans for their children’s college education, according to a survey by COUNTRY Financial. Further, 47 percent say college plans are a higher priority than retirement savings (41 percent).
This marks the first time in three years a majority of parents are putting their [...]
Travis Credit Union, based in Vacaville, has announced it is increasing its Mary Keith Duff Memorial Scholarship Fund.
This year, as part of a commitment to serve the community, Travis Credit Union’s board of directors has raised the number of $1,000 scholarship awards from eight to 15. The credit union also revised its application so that [...]
The Rotary Club of Somerville and Bridgewater recently held its annual scholarship awards luncheon at the Bridgewater Manor.
Eight students from local schools were awarded scholarships totaling $15,000.
One student from each of the four high schools in the area received a scholarship based on scholastic ability, service to school, service to community and need.
The Rotary Creed [...]
A business technology scholarship established by a local company and a grant from a Dallas-based trust combined this week to add to the growth potential of the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope, college officials said Wednesday.
Hope realtor Steve Lance and his wife, Cindy, established the Lance and Associates Real Estate Scholarship in Business [...]
Freshman Amanda Hordendorf (Topton, Pa./Brandywine Heights) of the Lock Haven University field hockey team was recently awarded the inaugural Domino’s Athletics Scholarship by Jim and Zonda Gregory, owners and operators of the Lock Haven Domino’s Pizza restaurant.
The Gregory’s have sent up a $10,000 scholarship to benefit LHU student athletes majoring in business.
Jim and Zonda understand [...]
HARRISBURG – The state’s student loan agency, already the focus of negative publicity for its travel expenses, has a new critic.
The governor.
“It has to have a total housecleaning,” Gov. Rendell said of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. “When the cost of college is more and more challenging to Pennsylvanians and their families, we can’t [...]
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 [...]
The British Council, in co-ordination with Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training, today opened a two-day symposium on international education and employability in Hanoi.
The symposium is expected to lead to concrete proposals for co-operation and research and encourage the development of strategic alliances and networks.
This symposium kicks off a series of at least six in [...]
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 [...]
More than 5,200 students at Kansas State University are academic scholarship recipients for the 2006-2007 school year. Students are listed by their hometown.
Butler County
Andover: Austin Garrett Delimont, $1,460 Barbe Family Scholarship; Megan Ann Enns, $525 A. Sidney McIntire Memorial Scholarship and $725 Richard L. Clarke Scholarship; Bradley Warren Fouse, $240 G.E. Johnson Engineering Scholarship and [...]