CollegeInvest, Colorado’s not-for-profit higher education financing resource, is helping middle- to lower-income Colorado families make saving for college a little easier through it’s Matching Grant program.
The Matching Grant Program matches contributions to CollegeInvest’s college savings plans dollar-for-dollar for qualifying middle- to lower-income Colorado families, providing up to $500 in matching funds annually. Families may qualify […]

Access - State Farm Insurance gives grant money to help students find their way to higher education
FOREST GROVE — Though they are called “Dreamers,” 300 Forest Grove School District students have been on the path since third grade to something real: college.
The students — in grades 8, 10 and 11 — are nearing the high […]

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Thursday marked an important anniversary for the Boston family. It wasn’t a wedding date or a birth date. Rather, Feb. 22 marked the one-year anniversary of Jarrett Boston’s lost battle with cancer.
In 2002, when Jarrett […]

Dr. Stephen Scott, president of Wake Technical Community College, today announced that Rebecca Lane Payne has established an endowed scholarship with the Wake Tech Community College Foundation for African-American students pursuing a degree in nursing at the college. The scholarship honors Maude Williams Griffis, whom Payne describes as a long-time friend, caregiver, teacher and healer […]

WATERVLIET - Bishop Howard Hubbard and fellow Catholic education colleagues have created the first Beacon of Hope Ball to raise money for a student scholarship for the area’s Catholic schools.
“The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany’s schools have educated our children for over a century,” said Hubbard at an event last week in St. Brigid’s Regional […]

Chapter M of P.E.O. has available a $500 scholarship grant to a Rush County woman continuing her higher education. This scholarship, the Joan Bosse Continuing Education Grant, is awarded to a Rush County woman who has had her higher education interrupted, but is now pursuing a college or technical degree.
The grant is given in […]

MADISON, Wis. Officials at the Lac Courte Oreilles (lah-coot-ah-RAY’) community college have agreed to pay the federal government in a settlement over misused grant money.
Former Ojibwa (oh-JIB’-wah) Community College administrator Thomas Flaschberger was found guilty in 2004 of defrauding the federal government. He was accused of inflating the number of students to help win grants.
U-S […]

CHICAGO – Thea Lindquist, assistant professor of history & Germanic language and literature librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has been selected to receive the 2007 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Western European Studies Section (WESS) Coutts Nijhoff International West European Specialist Study Grant.
This grant covers airfare to and from Europe, transportation […]

Applications still are being accepted by the Leonardo’s Discovery Warehouse Board of Directors for new members as part of a board initiative to provide opportunity for low-income families to visit the hands-on art and science museum in downtown Enid.
Scholarship memberships will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, and those interested must demonstrate financial need […]

LOOKING for a scholarship with a guaranteed job placement upon graduation?
Taylor’s World Class Scholarship (TWCS) offers both financial aid and an opportunity to train with international companies such as AC Nielsen and Arc Worldwide Asia Pacific.
The internship will be carried out throughout the duration of the students’ degree courses and as an […]