Western Nevada Community College students got the opportunity to personally thank the individuals who are helping them earn a college degree at the WNCC Foundation’s sixth annual Scholarship Appreciation & Recognition Reception.
The event celebrated the success of 175 students who received a total of $156,000 in scholarship awards. Foundation funds contributed $109,600 of this total [...]

Northern Nevada is home to 45 of the state’s 90 high school seniors named as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists, the organization has announced.
The students are among the approximately 16,000 semifinalists nationwide who have the opportunity to continue in the competition for one of the 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards, worth $33 million, that will be offered [...]

Fifteen Northern Nevada students have been awarded $1,000 each in scholarships through Greater Nevada Credit Union’s Annual Academic Scholarship Program.
The scholarships are based on the student’s financial needs, academic performance, community involvement, and educational and career goals.
• Amanda Cook, a Carson High School graduate, plans on attending the University of Nevada, Reno.
• Cassandra Larson, a [...]

The sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance” will once again fill the air as it does every year about this time as the Churchill County High and Lahontan Valley High Classes of 2006 walk for their respective commencement ceremonies.
The CCHS ceremony takes place this evening, June 2, 7 p.m. at the fairgrounds. The LVHS ceremony took [...]

The Greater Nevada Credit Union is currently accepting applications for its annual academic scholarship program. This year, Greater Nevada will award 15 scholarships for $1,000 each.
The scholarships are available to Greater Nevada members and their spouses and children. Applications are available at all Northern Nevada high schools, any Greater Nevada branch, or online at www.gncu.org/Scholarship.html.
Completed [...]

DeVry University has appointed Craig Jacob as president of the school’s Phoenix Metro, which includes DeVry’s main Phoenix campus and center locations in Northeast Phoenix and Mesa. Jacob previously held senior-level administrative positions with the University of Phoenix’s Grand Rapids, Mich. and Phoenix campuses. Jacob assumes a role previously held by James Dugan, who has [...]

City National Bank is now accepting applications from educators for grants to support literacy-based projects at elementary, middle and high schools in California, New York and Nevada.
The online application can be accessed by visiting http://www.readingisthewayup.org/literacy.asp. Any full-time teacher, librarian, administrator or school media specialist at a school in the county of New York, or in [...]

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 [...]

The Tea Council of the USA, Inc. announced today the launch of the Calm-A-Sutra of Tea(TM), a nationwide scholarship competition awarding one creative student $20,000 towards their education plus an all-expense paid trip to New York City, in an effort to further educate America’s young people on the health-related benefits of drinking tea.
The Calm-A-Sutra of [...]