Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading saving- and paying-for-college company, awarded $25,000 to 11-year-old Gracie Maddox on “Dr. Phil” to help pay for her college education. The presentation is part of Sallie Mae’s ongoing awareness campaign to remind students and families that college is possible. Dr. Phil McGraw presented the award to Gracie on behalf of [...]

Inorder to help Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in sending their children to college. The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is currently offering scholarship grants that will help qualified OFW dependents continue their college studies.
According to Dir. Hassan Jumdain, OWWA Caraga Regional Director, the program, dubbed as Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) is a grant [...]

Five Linton-Stockton High School seniors were presented the 2006 Phil Harris Scholarship awards Wednesday evening during a celebration dinner at The Old Bank & Co.
Marsha Kelley, treasurer of the Phil Harris Scholarship Trustees, presented the awards to Evan Herndon, Caleb Fischer, Emily Gaither, Kara Sue Mullis and Chris Taylor.
Herndon, the son of Craig and Tricia [...]

To help students who want to study internationally during upcoming college semesters, the Rotary Club Scholarship Program is offering another round of its annual scholarships for club members who plan to study abroad.
With nearly 800 scholarships available, the Rotary Club Scholarship Program is now accepting applications for 2010-2011 awards. Applications are due April 15.
The scholarship [...]

If, as some have said, conservatives are ruled by facts and liberals by emotions, one would be hard-put to find a better illustration of the aphorism than popular radio talk-show host Phil Valentine’s The Conservative’s Handbook: Defining the Right Positions on Issues from A to Z. Initially his A-to-Z issues were developed as a [...]

Several Indian-origin students have found a pride of place among the 32 named last week to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for 2008.
Six students of Indian or South Asian origin are among the recipients of the scholarship, the oldest international study awards available to American students.
Each will receive scholarships to study at the University of [...]

Digicel, sponsors of West Indies cricket, in collaboration with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on Thursday launched the Digicel Cricket Scholarship, which will give young West Indian cricketers the opportunity of playing cricket in England and other major cricketing nations, according to a release from Digicel.
Windies fast bowler Jerome Taylor is to be the [...]

A special panel has recommended dropping the minimum grade-point average college students must maintain to keep their state lottery scholarships, but the idea is drawing mixed reviews from Tennessee lawmakers.
Gov. Phil Bredesen and state lawmakers called for a review of the lottery scholarship program earlier this year after the Tennessee Higher [...]

A little more than a year after the Kalamazoo Promise was launched, the hope, curiosity and excitement for this novel scholarship program has only grown.
Cities and states have generated proposals to duplicate the program, which guarantees four-year tuition payment at any Michigan public institution for Kalamazoo Public Schools graduates who have resided in the district [...]

Four Indian-Americans were among the 32 US students selected for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for 2007.
The successful Indian-American scholars are Maya Shanker, a senior majoring in Cognitive Science and Amia P Srinivasan, a Philosophy major from Yale University. Parvinda S Thiara – a Harvard major in Chemistry and Shaan Chirag C Gandhi – a Biochemistry [...]