Seventy-five $2,000 scholarships are available for Spanish-speaking, bicultural high school students who want to pursue careers in the health care industry.
The scholarships, funded by the PacifiCare Foundation, are offered on behalf of the UnitedHealthcare Latino Health Scholars program, which helps educate and encourage Hispanic and Latino students to pursue career opportunities in health care.
High-school seniors [...]

Students applying for eight scholarships at the Hamilton College branch in Council Bluffs have until today to complete the essay portion of the application.
Derek Woellhof, admission representative for the college, said students applying for the scholarships must also take several tests in addition to the essay. This marks the first time that the scholarships, $3,000 [...]

ExxonMobil today announced that it will for the fourthconsecutive year offer the popular Mobil Delvac Agricultural Scholarships program, which provides $4,000 scholarships to threestudents pursuing a college degree at an accredited U.S. agricultureschool.
Scholarship winners will be selected from responses to one of twoessay categories and one photo/graphic category centered on thisyear’s theme of “Maximizing the [...]

A Scholarship Program is available for students who are academically gifted and/or for students who seek financial assistance towards College fees. Entrance Scholarships are awarded annually, Annual Prize Awards are given to students in recognition of academic achievement and Sports Scholarships are offered in conjunction with Sydney University Sport. The Archbishop of Sydney Academic Scholarship [...]

The Scholarship Handbook 2009 is an ideal resource for students and parents who need help paying for college.  It provides complete, authoritative facts about more than 2,100 scholarship, internship, and loan programs offered to undergraduates by foundations, charitable organizations, and state and federal government agencies.  Each program is clearly described, and indexes help students [...]

The American College of Surgeons offers International Guest Scholarships to competent young surgeons from countries other than the United States or Canada who have demonstrated strong interests in teaching and research. The scholarships, in the amount of $8,000 each, provide the Scholars with an opportunity to visit clinical, teaching, and research activities in North America [...]

College sophomores, juniors and seniors who want to study a language and live abroad starting any time after July 2009 for three months or for a full academic year should apply by March 1 for a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.
Interested students should look at the rotary.org Web site to download the Ambassadorial Scholarship [...]

Dyersburg State Community College was recently selected by the Tennessee Board of Regents to receive a $50,000 grant to fund dual enrollment scholarships for the upcoming school year.
Dual enrollment is a special enrollment status that allows high school students who meet certain academic standards to take college courses. Students who successfully complete the course work [...]

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 [...]

If they haven’t already, millions of seniors graduating from high school will turn their attention over the next few weeks to paying for college.
Scholarships and grants — which don’t have to be paid back — are the best option, of course. But not everyone has the academic record for merit aid, or a great jump [...]