Colorado Technical University Online Creates the Wounded Warrior Scholarship Program
Career Education Corporation announced today that Colorado Technical University Online (CTU Online), in partnership with Helping Our Heroes Foundation, will be awarding full scholarships to as many as 25 United States service men and women at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Applications are now being accepted for the Wounded Warrior Scholarship, a one-time scholarship program, and the recipients will be announced on March 8, 2008. All course tuition, course materials and fees are included, along with a laptop computer for each scholarship recipient. Students may pursue Associate, Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees and can begin classes in April 2008.
Helping Our Heroes Foundation (”HOHF”) is a non-profit organization that provides a way for donated funds and services to directly reach our injured service men and women, and a way for concerned Americans to volunteer to actively support our armed forces. HOHF assisted CTU Online in the creation of a ten-person scholarship selection board that includes former military officers and educators. Tammy Duckworth, Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Major in the Illinois Army National Guard, chairs the board, and Karen Theobald Conlin, President and founder of HOHF, is one if its members. Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran who lost both legs when a rocket-propelled grenade struck the cockpit of the Blackhawk helicopter she was co-piloting. She recovered at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
“The Wounded Warrior scholarship program is a natural result of the significant emphasis that CTU has placed on military education for several decades,” said Wallace Pond, Chancellor, CTU Online. “Online education provided through CTU offers an ideal environment for recovering service members to start or continue their education while in rehabilitation.”
Scholarship applicants must complete a special CTU Online application form along with some additional requirements, including an essay and written responses to a number of questions. More information is available at www.ctuonline.edu/yourfuture. HOHF has arranged to have nearly two dozen mentors, who are civilian volunteers, to provide one-on-one support to the applicants and the eventual awardees from the Warrior Transition Brigade at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Once the scholarship recipients are selected, the mentors will continue to provide support to them through their education period.
“As a former military officer, I support the need to assist those men and women who have already given so much to our country,” said Gary McCullough, President and CEO of Career Education Corporation. “The gift of education is something that we are proud to be able to offer.”
About Colorado Technical University and CTU Online
Since 1965, Colorado Technical University (CTU: 0.54, +0.03, +5.88%) - an institution of higher learning that provides career-oriented education by teaching applied industry programs — has given students a pathway towards personal, academic, and professional advancement. Colorado Tech offers degree-track programs at the Associate, Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral levels in a wide range of fields of study. For more information on CTU, visit www.coloradotech.edu. Through its web-based virtual campus, CTU Online, the university offers degree programs that are 100% online. For additional information on CTU Online, visit www.ctuonline.edu. Colorado Technical University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association.
About Helping our Heroes Foundation
Helping Our Heroes Foundation is a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to provide support for those service members wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). The foundation was created at the request of the US Army after Army leadership took Ms. Karen Theobald Conlin, HOHF President, to visit troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. An all volunteer organization, HOHF has no paid staff but rather works with a volunteer contingent. Services provided include: air travel grants, financial grants, educational and career support, morale events and mentoring. For further information please visit www.hohf.org.
About Career Education Corporation
The colleges, schools, and universities that are part of the Career Education Corporation (CEC: 23.87, +0.51, +2.18%) family offer high quality education to a diverse population of approximately 90,000 students across the world in a variety of career-oriented disciplines. The more than 75 campuses that serve these students are located throughout the U.S. and in Canada, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and offer doctoral, master’s, bachelor’s, and associate degrees and diploma and certificate programs. Approximately one third of our students attend the web-based virtual campuses of American InterContinental University Online and Colorado Technical University Online.
CEC is an industry leader whose gold-standard brands are recognized globally. Those brands include Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America; Harrington College of Design; Brooks Institute; International Academy of Design & Technology; American InterContinental University; Colorado Technical University and Sanford-Brown Institutes and Colleges. Through its schools, CEC is committed to providing quality education, enabling students to graduate and pursue rewarding careers.
For more information, see the company’s website at http://www.careered.com. The company’s website includes a detailed listing of individual campus locations and web links to its more than 75 colleges, schools, and universities.
SOURCE: Career Education Corporation
