Sentences with phrase «full college scholarships»

Greg's other responsibilities include the Detroit Compact Scholarship program, which provides full college scholarships to over 150 Detroit Public School graduates every year.

Lawmakers have phased out funding for the highly praised NC Teaching Fellows program, which awarded full college scholarships to North Carolina students who promised to teach in the state for at least four years.

The school now has championship sports teams that have earned dozens of students full college scholarships.

This invention has earned him a full college scholarship.

Able to swoosh three - pointers with ease, the young athlete is a first - pick for scouts looking to hand out a full college scholarship.

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An outspoken supporter of women in the technology space, she isn't afraid to say that quotas and regulations may be what's necessary to get women to equal levels within the sector, much as Title IX allowed her to receive a full scholarship to college.

The fact that the trust offers a full - ride scholarship, could act as the deciding factor «between someone going to college or not,» Bane added.

Grants, scholarships, work - study and other forms of gift aid just do not cover the full cost of a college education.

In the future, senior year, despite what he has already said that he wouldn't do it, if he was put up against another woman for the state championship and a full scholarship to his college of choice, yeah he would.

Church congregations are creating «Alternative to Military Scholarships» for at - risk youth, and colleges like Eastern University are doing all they can to laugh in the face of a recession and create full - rides for kids like Michael because it is the right thing to do.

For the 48th consecutive year, Hormel Foods awarded 18 undergraduate college scholarships to children of full - time, retired and deceased employees of Hormel Foods and its subsidiaries.

The reason athletes are provided more amenities, cost of living stipends, and full scholarships / housing is because their contribution to the university is marketable and profitable — the success of athletic programs in winning college games.

Typically a scandal in college basketball involves one thing: paying players above full scholarship and full cost of attendance.

The CATA offers these scholarships to athletic trainers who are enrolled full - time in a Connecticut college or university.

The younger went to college on full - ride scholarships that were over her cost of education, so she was actually given the extra money for books and living expenses.

The full - scholarship biology major at Queens College already earned a degree in neuroscience, but could not afford the leap to graduate school due to a roadblock barring -LSB-...]

«Our first - in - the - nation Excelsior Scholarship is designed so more New Yorkers go to college tuition - free and receive the education they deserve to reach their full potential.»

«Through this scholarship, Fernando, Tony, Narelys, Ramanjot, and Nayelhi will be given the full financial support to allow each of them to earn a quality college degree and pursue their dreams.

Last year we hosted Mark Brennan, who attended Marist College on a full academic scholarship.

At LaGuardia Community College in Queens, the governor revealed he would ask the State Legislature to allocate $ 163 million to create the «Excelsior Scholarship,» which will offer free tuition full - time State University of New York and City University of New York students from households earning up to $ 125,000 per year.

More than 22,000 students across the state received the Excelsior Scholarship, a program that covers tuition for full - time students at New York's public colleges and universities, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Surrounded by her fellow players, coaches and family, Saugerties High School senior Kellyann Averill signed a letter of intent to attend St. Thomas Aquinas College in Rockland County on a full basketball scholarship.

He received a full scholarship to study at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, through Carl Rowan's Project Excellence, a program founded by Rowan, a syndicated columnist who died in 2000, to aid African - American high - school seniors from the Washington, D.C., area who plan to attend college.

In addition to a four - year full tuition scholarship, the award will include admission to the UM Honors College, match with a faculty mentor, and a research supply budget.

I did Lauren's first gynecological exam and Pap smear when she was seventeen, and I can't help think about how she graduated in the top tenth percentile of her high school, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and received a full scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, but ended up attending the local city college so she wouldn't leave her single mom alone.

She won an oratory contest in high school that won her a full scholarship to the historically black college Tennessee State University.

I was always incredibly active growing up, and eventually earned a four - year full scholarship to play for the women's basketball team at The College of St. Rose in Albany, NY.

We had been tested, we had applied to schools, we already knew where we were going for college, many had full ride scholarships, we had it made....

Went to college on an almost full scholarship.

I have a wonderful daughter who is 19 years old in college on a full paid academic scholarship and my handsome son is 14 years old who lives w...

A 10 - year - old boy «discovered» playing at an aging Kissimmee motel and cast in the film «The Florida Project» has been promised a full four - year scholarship to Rollins College — the youngest recipient in college hCollege — the youngest recipient in college hcollege history.

Students who attend college in Michigan are eligible for the full $ 2,500 scholarship, while students going to college out of state can receive up to $ 1,000.

«My mom used [our undocumented status] as a way to get me to excel in school because she knew the only way I could go to college was to get into an elite school that would give me a full scholarship,» says Diaz, co-director of Act on a Dream, who was at the top of her high school class until her senior year, when her dad lost his job and she began working at Burger King 35 hours a week to support her family.

The Hope scholarship also pays full tuition at Georgia public universities and community colleges and a similar amount at private colleges in Georgia.

Relentless practice and his 6 - foot -4-inch frame turned him into a basketball star, and the game opened the door to a full scholarship to Carroll College in nearby Waukesha, as the only black student.

The Greenville, Tennessee — based Niswonger Foundation, for example, offers the most talented college - bound students full scholarships to postsecondary schools of their choosing in exchange for commitment to return to and work in their often - rural eastern Tennessee communities for the same number of years they receive the scholarship.

Results from the other Cristo Rey schools have proven the model works with kids who at one time were lead gang members, involved in violence or drugs and are now being accepted and going to universities like Georgetown, Brown, and Boston College, many with full scholarships.

Josh Morrison, who is attending Saint Lawrence University in the fall, credits Uncommon with helping him achieve his goal of attending a four - year college on a full scholarship.

She earned a full scholarship to Middlebury College in Vermont, a world away from Pico Union, the neighborhood where she grew up.

Since 2008, Walden University has recognized and honored State Teachers of the Year by offering each of these outstanding educators a full tuition scholarship when they enroll in one of the many education programs offered by Walden's Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership.

Thanks to all of them, I went from English as a Second Language (ESL) level 1 to high school valedictorian, received a full scholarship in college, earned a law degree, and am now finishing up my Doctorate of Education.

The Howard County Public School System, located outside of Baltimore, awarded 11 of the district's 2016 graduates full four - year scholarships to attend McDaniel College this fall.

I received a full scholarship to Morehouse College, one of the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

My parents exercised choice in selecting parochial school for me and my siblings, and I was the first in my family to attend college on a full scholarship to Harvard University.

With the support of his school, friends and the community, Erik graduated at the top of his class and earned a full scholarship to South Mountain Community College, where he attended for a year before transferring to the University of Arizona.

Urban Assembly Gateway for Technology graduates Venetia Boyce and Federico Leyva, who are headed to college with near - full scholarships, say they chose the small school after feeling lost in a big middle school.

Fabiola received a full ride scholarship to Beloit College and graduated in 2016 with a double major in political science and education.

Governors State University, for example, offers a dual degree program and scholarship for qualifying students who are enrolled full - time at Chicagoland community colleges and who transfer to Governors State.

Noble Street College Prep graduate Jose Serrano is attending Stanford University this fall on a full - ride scholarship.

In addition, last year's NPS graduating classes saw more students matriculating to some of the country's top colleges and universities, with students receiving full scholarships to schools like Harvard, Princeton and Rutgers.