Scholarships
Western Government University Launches Scholarship Program
Western Governors University has decided to invest in continuing education for small business employees and owners with a scholarship plan for people who want to complete their education with an online degree in business. Each scholarship is $3,000 and the University intends to award up to thirty of them each year.
The program is [...]
Federal Grant for Rural Nursing Ed in Virginia
The University of Virginia Nursing School has received a $1.2 million grant for the purpose of preparing local and commuter graduate students to specialize in rural health care. The program will use both classroom teaching and online courses open to both full-time and part-time students of the University’s Graduate Nursing program.
Catherine Kane, the Nursing [...]
Scholarship Program for Needed Healthcare Professionals
Job Recruiting corporation HEALTHeCAREERS has announced a continuation of its scholarship program for students engaged in healthcare education programs. Each year they award a number of $1,500 scholarships to students who are enrolled in school and need assistance to make it to the finish line. The next round of scholarships will be awarded [...]
U.S. Army Hosts Scholarship for Health Care Professionals
College costs can add up fast, especially when you go beyond the undergraduate four years. Students enrolled graduate health care schools may spend as much time worrying about how to pay for their classes as they do on the classes themselves. Luckily, there are resources out there that can help, if you know where to [...]
MetLife Foundation Donates $200,000 Grant to Medical Students for Geriatric Training
Yesterday, we discussed the rising demand for physical therapists as the country’s large population of baby boomers continues to age. That said, tough there are many in-demand careers out there outside of the basic doctor/nurse paradigm, there are more career paths within said paradigm than one might think. We’re talking about specializations, and one of [...]
Wisconsin IT Students With Disabilities Honored at Award Night
Finding a viable path to college and a career can be hard enough on its own, but dealing with disabilities can make the process all the more discouraging. Luckily, there are organizations devoted to helping disabled students find the resources they need to make career success a reality, and AbilITy Connection is one of those [...]
Major Student Loan Overhaul in Washington
On September 17th the House of Representatives passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, a bill that provides billions of dollars in federal spending on education and that makes a major change in the structure for student loans in this country. The omnibus bill is described in the New York Times as a [...]
$100,000 in Scholarships and Grants Announced for Occupational Safety Degrees
Formal announcement was made on September 11 of an unusual collection of scholarship and grant opportunities that is furnished annually by a professional organization in the occupational safety and health field, the American Society of Safety Engineers Foundation. These annual awards are supported by a variety of educational funds and trusts administered by [...]
Frank Lanza Memorial Scholarship a Blessing for Health Care Students
The United States is in need of health care professionals more than ever before. Between a rapidly aging population and workers retiring faster than they can be replaced, something has to be done, but a new scholarship for health care students may help.
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) teamed up with Phi Theta [...]
University of Dayton Graduate Donates $1 Million to Business School Alma Mater
Though he graduated college in 1969, Ron McDaniel isn’t too different from a lot of students trying to earn a degree today. Married with a family, McDaniel started his college education by juggling courses at a two-year college with a full-time job at a railroad track supply company, before transferring to University of Dayton and [...]
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