Archive for May, 2006

McClave announces senior scholarships

McClave Schools has announced scholarship recipients. The school awarded 40 scholarships and grants with a total value of $186,900. Listed are the major scholarship recipients.
Cody Allen receives the presidential scholarship from Lamar Community College in the amount of $4,430 to be used over four semesters of study.
Kim Brown has been awarded a Colorado student grant […]

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Scholarship for nurse graduate studies Church

Tonya Church was awarded a Williams Family Foundation Scholarship to pursue her graduate studies toward becoming a family nurse practitioner at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
Church has been part-time health science faculty at Morgan Community College for the past year and a half teaching Med-Prep.
“I am so grateful to receive this wonderful scholarship […]

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Hang Seng Bank to offer scholarships for mainland MBA students

Hang Seng Bank announced on Tuesday that it will offer scholarships to a total of five outstanding Chinese mainland students for the MBA programs organized by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in partnership with London Business School (LBS) over the next five years.
The bank said the scholarships will amount to 1.25 million HK dollars […]

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

BAYERBoost scholarship offers experience and funds

BAYERBoost scholarship offers experience and funds
Environmental research and restoration main focus
Applications are now open for an exciting new environmental scholarship scheme that offers senior secondary school and undergraduate tertiary students the chance to work in their chosen areas of study during the summer holidays.
Known as BAYERBoost, the scholarship scheme is the result of a partnership […]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Maori scholarships to be axed

Having at least $3000 extra in the pocket made studying for four years to get a degree an achievable goal for Atera Tepania.
The Rotorua 22-year-old received Manaaki Tauira grants, through the Ministry of Education, every year while she was studying towards her Bachelor of Social Science at the University of Waikato.
The scholarships, which were designed […]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Utah State using scholarships to lure students across border

Utah State University is using more than $700,000 in scholarships to aggressively court students from border communities in Idaho for the upcoming school year.
“We really want to send a message that we care, and we want them here,” USU Recruitment Specialist Patrick Svedin said.
Nearly 30 students at Preston High School were awarded more than $450,000 […]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Leyte, Taiwan foundation sign MOA for Guisaugon orphans scholarships

The Memorandum of Agreement for the Cooperative Scholarship Program of the orphans of the Guinsaugon mudslide tragedy, will be held today at the Leyte Park Hotel.
This was learned during the meeting of the taskforce yesterday upon the arrival of the Taiwanese donors, the Dharma Drum Mountain Social Welfare and Charity Foundation represented by Mr. Tseng, […]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Law’s teacher standards elusive

‘Highly qualified’ harder to find in poorer schools
No state will meet the No Child Left Behind goal of having all public school teachers deemed highly qualified by the end of the school year, but Ohio and Kentucky are getting close, with more than nine out of 10 teachers meeting federal standards.
In Greater Cincinnati, nearly 97 […]

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Night of the Stars raises $30,000 for scholarships

Cincinnati Bengals safety Madieu Williams joined others last month at the annual Night of the Stars event that raised more than $30,000 for scholarship programs at the Cincinnati Center for Autism.
The event, sponsored by the center, had more than 70 silent auction items and about 250 people in attendance. Williams, who missed all but four […]

Monday, May 29th, 2006

LBJ graduate receives teachers’ scholarship

Julio Enrique Cardenas, 2006 graduate of Lyndon B. Johnson High School, is this year’s recipient of the Roxanne Guerra Jimenez Memorial Scholarship for Future Educators.He is the son of Enrique and Guadalupe Cardenas.
Cardneas is in the top 20 percent of his graduating class, and was a member of the basketball, cross country and track teams.
In […]

Monday, May 29th, 2006