College-bound students have until April 6 to apply for the Union County Council of Parent Teacher Associations Manya Ungar Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is based on donations and will be worth a minimum of $500.
The scholarship recognizes a former National PTA president and Scotch Plains resident, Manya Ungar, whose dedication to youth, education and the [...]

Maria McGrath, a young, dedicated special education teacher at Beechwood School, has been awarded a dyslexia scholarship from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She will receive training at the Scotch Plains location of the university.
“I am so excited being chosen for four graduate level courses,” she said.
She is currently one of two special education teachers at Beechwood, [...]

U.S. and Caribbean nationals interested in pursuing studies in media, broadcasting or public speaking are being offered scholarship awards in the memory of Christian communications professional and former CNN news anchor Andria Hall.
The SpeakEasy M.E.D.I.A. Foundation opened the application process for two grants which will be awarded to a high school student from the United [...]

Engineers from New Jersey American Water shared their expertise with aspiring seventh and eighth grade engineers from across the state at the National Engineering Week Future Cities Competition, held on Saturday, January 17, on the Busch Campus at Rutgers University.
“Water and the Economy” is the focus of this year’s Future Cities Competition. The students, who [...]

A scholarship in the amount of $1,200 will be given to a graduating senior from any Clinton County school or the Jersey Shore Area School District. Rich Ramm Memorial Scholarship is also available for present full-time college students. The student must be entered in or have been accepted into an accredited program in the field [...]

Community Visiting Nurse Association and its affiliates have announced that they are accepting applications for its nursing scholarship program, in memory of Caroline E. Krajewski Manney, former director of Community Visiting Nurse Association.
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The scholarship is awarded annually to a Somerset County resident who currently is enrolled in an accredited nursing program within the State of [...]

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn’t quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he [...]

Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., joined by 31 Attorneys General, urged the U.S. Senate to enact The Student Loan Sunshine Act, a new federal law to safeguard students and families nationwide from deceptive practices in the college loan industry.
The House of Representatives recently passed this legislation in a virtually unanimous vote of 414-3.
In a [...]

Sallie Mae Senior Vice President Barry Goulding today testified at the Senate Banking Committee hearing, ‘Paying for College: The Role of Private Student Lending’ to demonstrate how Sallie Mae serves students and parents in the private education loan market.
Goulding emphasized Sallie Mae’s ‘1-2-3 approach’ to paying for college: 1) after tapping personal financial resources such [...]

Both Gloucester County College and Rowan University missed the deadline to reply to the state Attorney General’s subpoena as part of a statewide investigation into improper partnerships with colleges and student loan companies.
Only 32 of the 61 subpoenaed colleges subpoenaed responded by the May 20 deadline, according to Attorney General’s Office spokesman David Wald.
The [...]