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For high school seniors Macy Harrison and Chris Barnes, the highlight of June 18 may not have been meeting star Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning. The two college-bound students joined Manning and the University of Tennessee (UT) chancellor and provost in a ceremony commending their accomplishments and awarding both scholarships to the university.
The scholarship offers the students a full ride to graduation and is funded by private gifts, academic awards garnered during Manning's time at UT as well as donations by Manning himself and his wife Ashley.…

On June 19, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murphy and Senior Vice President of Comcast's Greater Boston Region Steve Hackley awarded 102 students with more than $111,000 in scholarship funds at the state house. The Comcast Leaders and Achievers scholarship awards students with one-time $1,000 scholarships to the school of their choice. This year's batch of winners were commended for their dedication to their community as well as academics.…

For the first time, in college, you will have complete control of when to call in sick, but you may not want to. College academics are rigorous, and they don't play well with someone who needs to spend mornings in bed recovering from his or her fifth head cold of the semester. One of the most important lessons of freshman year is to keep yourself healthy and avoid a backlog of work that will have you rushing toward the end of term.…

It may feel like culture shock or it may feel like coming home. You'll be both thrilled and intimidated, surrounded by students and professors who share not only your interests but your enthusiasm. You'll spend classes being scared to death and evenings having heart-to-hearts with people who will become lifelong friends. One thing's for sure, you'll know you're not in high school anymore.…

One of the many college grants options for students is the Federal Work-Study program. Based on need, students will qualify for a maximum number of part-time work hours for an on campus job. Some of these positions will be cushy but potentially slow (library assistant), while others might involve a lot of work in a social and fast-moving climate (snack bar short-order chef), and some positions may actually be academic (tutor, T.A., office assistant).…

Since 1916, Wegman's Food Markets, Inc. has been building its family-owned chain of stores. They now have 80 locations down the East Coast from New York to Virginia, and have been pioneering The Wegman's Employee Scholarship Program since 1984. Over the years, more than 26,500 employees have received a total of $85 million in scholarship funding. This year - the program's 29th - sees 1,686 employees receiving $5.05 million for the coming academic year, the largest number of scholarships ever annually awarded.…

Once upon a time computers were mysterious room-sized machines that only MIT minds could fathom and operate. Now we carry them around in our pockets and find them invaluable both during and outside of class. Computers are a collegiate essential, and you're going to want to make sure that yours is just as ready to embark on college life as you are.…

When you're accepted at most schools, you'll be given a choice as to whether you want to pay for just your education or your education plus room and board. Room and board essentially means living in a dorm and having access to the school dining halls, so are you shelling out a whole lot more money just for a place to sleep and underwhelming food?…

For those public school students who tend to walk into a Barnes and Noble and pick up a new paperback for fifteen dollars, the college bookstore can be a 1.21 gigawatt shock. Suddenly textbooks are going to cost you a full paycheck, and you're worried that you'll never be able to spend your Christmas money on anything fun again.
Fear not, although it's always nice to help out your school with a donation after you graduate, if you don't patronize the school bookstore while you're a student no one will hold it against you (they'll make plenty selling you mozzarella sticks and curly fries at 2am).…

Bunker Hill Community College, the largest of Massachusetts' community colleges, has been given a $536,456 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The school has announced that it will be using the funding to establish a new school scholarship program, titled "Rewarding Excellence For Leaders in Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology," or REFLECT.
Through the REFLECT program, more than 60 students will receive two-year schooling at Bunker Hill Community College, or one year at Bunker Hill and the second at another at a four-year school of that student's choice.…