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Higher Education Scholarships
“UPS
Awards Program”
Nominations tendered from all FIHE-affiliated
colleges result in 1,351 scholarships in the past two years.
“Higher
Education Improvement Award”
One student receives a scholarship for
providing the most original and creative answers to three
problem-solving questions about improving higher education.
“Business Scholarships”
Students may apply for one of three
scholarships, if they excel academically in their pursuit of
a business degree and give evidence of financial need.
“Scholarships
through the Internet”
Two students from FIHE-affiliated colleges
receive grants issued from an internet-based scholarship
service.
“Broadcast
Scholarship Program”
FIHE-affiliated colleges in 16 states award
scholarships to 105 upper division minority students
interested in pursuing careers in broadcasting and broadcast
journalism.
“Positive Attitude Reaches Kids (P.A.R.K.) Graduate Program”
Arkansas’ Independent Colleges &
Universities (AICU)
Matching funds provide, along with
intuitional commitments and gifts from donors, full
scholarships at AICU member colleges for graduates of
P.A.R.K., a non-tax-supported intensive after school and
summer tutoring program for at-risk students.
Project Director:
E. Kearney Dietz
Arkansas’ Independent Colleges & Universities
501-378-0843
“Liberal
Arts for Leadership Essay Contest”
The Associated Colleges of Illinois
This grant is designed to draw the public’s
attention to the vital role private liberal arts colleges
play in developing the nation’s future leadership and to
make the case for enhanced support for these institutions.
The essay contest will challenge seniors at member colleges
to articulate how their liberal arts education helped them
develop leadership skills. Three winners will receive a
scholarship for their final semester. The contest will be
marketed statewide through public relations, advertising
strategies, and a commemorative book for distribution to
donors, prospects and state leadership.
Project Director:
Jerry Fuller
Associated Colleges of Illinois
312-263-2391
“Scholarship Challenge Fund for ACI Scholars”
The Associated Colleges of Illinois (ACI)
These funds will be used to establish a
Scholarship Challenge Fund to enable 24 minority and
low-income students, who for four years have participated in
ACI’s College Readiness Program, to make the college
dream a reality, and to attend one of ACI’s member colleges
on full tuition, room and board scholarships.
Project Director:
Jerry Fuller
Associated Colleges of Illinois
312-263-2391
“ICF Minority
Scholarship Fund”
Iowa College Foundation (ICF)
This grant will be matched from other
corporate and foundation sources to award 20 $5,000
scholarships to incoming minority freshmen in academic year
2000 - 2001, and the recipient colleges will continue the
scholarships for the students’ three remaining years of
college. In addition, each participating corporation will
be offered the opportunity to employ scholarship recipients
as paid interns. The initial $100,000 in scholarships will
be matched by another $300,000 from the colleges.
Project Director: Velma
Peters
Iowa College Foundation
515-282-0473
“TEACHERS
FIRST Challenge Scholarship”
Missouri Colleges Fund (MCF)
MCF has created a TEACHERS FIRST Challenge
Scholarship Program to respond to the critical teacher
shortage in the public elementary and secondary classrooms
across the state. The challenge was sponsored by the banking
industry in 1998 and the state’s leading brokerage firms in
1999. For 2000, representatives of the telecommunications
industry have pledged the matching funds. Scholarships will
be awarded to outstanding needy students enrolled in the
education programs of the member colleges. Scholarships of
approximately $2,000 will be awarded to encourage them to
become teachers.
Project Director:
Larry Schepker
Missouri Colleges Fund
573-893-3818
“Brain Gain”
Nebraska Independent College Foundation
The Nebraska Independent College Foundation
will introduce Brain Gain, a program that targets
talented students from farms, ranches, and small towns and
encourages them to enroll in private colleges and discover
successful careers in Nebraska. Through Brain Gain,
the independent colleges will reach out to rural students
and offer them the opportunity to pursue a college degree in
an environment of personalized support and encouragement.
Project Director:
Jack Pierce
Nebraska Independent College Foundation
402-339-1660
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