A grant initiative will double the dollars donated to the Southwestern Illinois College Foundation until 2012.
The Title III grant initiative is part of a Strengthening Institutions Program grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Funds contribued to the college foundation now through 2012 will be matched dollar for dollar by the grant.
“This is the […]

Through a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, a Kansas community college has expanded its nursing program, the Dodge City Daily Globe reported.
The Kansas Department of Labor estimates that by 2012, job openings in southwest Kansas will increase by 21.6% for LPNs and 27.5% for RNs.
The three-year grant is helping Dodge City […]

A group of Kamiak graduates have announced the formation of a new non-profit organization called the “Robster Craws Fund.”
The Robster Craws are a group of five Kamiak 2005 Graduates (Sam Wrzeszcz, Jeff Jones, Steven Huang, James Chin, and Keisuke Natsume) who were all members of the same Knowledge Bowl team at Kamiak.
By their senior year […]

The Bechtel Group Foundation has pledged $5,000 to help support the Next Generation Scholarship Fund, which provides academic scholarships to high school seniors who plan to pursue an engineering course of study in college leading to a career in the power generation industry.
The scholarship fund is beginning its second year and Bechtel has been a […]

A fund created to pay education costs of the children who lost a parent in a 2003 nightclub fire says it’s received scholarship commitments from several colleges and universities.
The Station Education Fund was created by Jeffrey and Michael Derderian. The brothers owned The Station nightclub in West Warwick, where a fire sparked by a […]

He has ridden 11,500 miles on his bike since 2002 to raise scholarship money for part-time students, and he’s still not satisfied.
Robert Erickson, the chair of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Foundation, began his sixth annual 2,300-mile bicycle tour on Aug. 20 to raise money and public support for part-time students who attend colleges […]

As Bates College prepares to begin its first academic year with a new set of core educational requirements, a foundation in Falmouth has awarded the college more than $250,000 to support the requirements’ focus on writing skills. The grant was received from the Davis Educational Foundation established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s […]

State officials yesterday announced plans to pour $41 million into programs to help students with disabilities enter the workforce or start college after finishing high school.
More than $5 million of that will go to eight city schools, including Francis Lewis High School in Queens, where officials plan to spend their $423,000 grant on extra services […]

A grant will bring cutting-edge technology to New Philadelphia and point the way for more excavation work next summer.
The $14,000 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training covers the cost of an aerial survey this fall using high-resolution thermal imaging to look beneath the surface of the community founded by Free […]

Fourteen area seniors received $1,000 grants from Crawford College Connection at its annual awards program and reception May 20 in the fellowship hall of Epworth United Methodist Church. In addition, one adult learner was awarded a $500 by the organization.
Kyle Smith, Wynford High School, and Emily Lust, Colonel Crawford High School, received a $1,000 nursing […]