New Jersey

New scholarships for BCC grads attending Monmouth

May 24th, 2006

The Board of Chosen Freeholders have established a $50,000 annual scholarship program that will benefit up to 10 Brookdale Community College graduates a year who elect to continue their college education at Monmouth University.
The scholarships will be awarded annually to approximately 10 Monmouth County residents who graduate Brookdale with a minimum grade point average of [...]

3 locals sign Division I hoops scholarships

May 16th, 2006

Atlantic City High point guard Frank Turner, Camden Catholic’s Ahmad Nicholson, and former Eastern combination guard Ruben Britt have signed Division I men’s basketball scholarships.
Turner, an Inquirer all-South Jersey basketball selection last season, announced yesterday that he had signed a letter of intent with Canisius College in Buffalo. Britt confirmed that he had signed with [...]

Vietnam vets foundation offers scholarships

March 24th, 2006

Graduating high school seniors have a deadline of 5 p.m. April 7 to qualify for one of two $2,500 scholarships offered by the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation.
The scholarships will be awarded to New Jersey students who plan to attend a college, university or trade or technical school.
Along with the application form and proof [...]

Going Global For An MBA

March 9th, 2006

Soon the new MBA students at RSM Erasmus University in Rotterdam would be hunched over textbooks for their finance and marketing courses, but first it was time to pound on a goatskin stretched across a hollow piece of wood. That’s part of the orientation for RSM’s 96 incoming international MBA students, most from outside the [...]

Going Global For An MBA

March 7th, 2006

Soon the new MBA students at RSM Erasmus University in Rotterdam would be hunched over textbooks for their finance and marketing courses, but first it was time to pound on a goatskin stretched across a hollow piece of wood. That’s part of the orientation for RSM’s 96 incoming international MBA students, most from outside [...]

Scholarships available for Chautauqua Writers Festival – Clarion University

March 5th, 2006

Clarion University is offering three full scholarships, which cover registration, food, and board, to the third annual Chautauqua Writer’s Festival, June 15-18 at the writer’s center in Chautauqua, N.Y.
The festival is a four day event that includes intensive writing workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and reading. Award winning poets, fiction writers, and non-fiction writers will be [...]

Education chief touts high school reform

February 24th, 2006

FLORHAM PARK — U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings pointed out Wednesday that New Jersey requires four years of physical education in high school, but only three years of math.
Her call for stronger high school math and science courses came in a speech to 150 education and business leaders at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College at Florham [...]

Yarnold Trust scholarships

February 17th, 2006

Thanks to a lifetime of hard work, successful farming in the blueberry fields of New Jersey, and sound financial investments, New Hampshire native Samuel Yarnold and his wife, Alice, bequeathed more than $800,000 in scholarship funds for New Hampshire residents.
Annual scholarships in the range of $1,000 to $5,000 are currently available for New Hampshire residents [...]

Freehold Soil Conservation District Scholarship

January 21st, 2006

Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $1,000 scholarships to college students majoring in a conservation-related field. The deadline for applications is April 7.
Offered will be The Neal Munch and Mac Clark Scholarships, which have been awarded 27 consecutive years. To qualify, an applicant must be a New Jersey resident of Monmouth or Middlesex [...]