Scholarshipzone

A North Carolina CEO has contributed $1 million for a nonprofit to provide financial aid for school for children of immigrants who entered this country illegally, according to a report from the Charlotte Observer.
Golden Door - founded by Red Ventures CRO Ric Elias - is designed to offer financial aid for college that would cover tuition and housing, according to the news source.…

Many students have taken advantage of opportunities to make some pocket money for college by serving as subjects for clinical research trials, which are sometimes found under the "ETC" jobs category on Craigslist, or college bulletin boards.
Although sleep studies that require subjects to remain at facilities for consecutive days may be counterproductive for anyone with a full load of classes, that's not the case for all studies.…

Noting that more women than ever are applying for scholarships to further their academic ambitions, Scholarship America compiled a list of institutions that offer scholarships for single moms, which was published by USA Today.
The article highlighted the Jeanette Rankin Women's Scholarship Fund, which requires applicants to be over the age of 35, accepted to an accredited college, of a low-income background and interested in technical or vocational schooling.…

The national restaurant chain, McDonald's, recently began posting the calorie counts of its menu options at all 14,000 of its franchises across the U.S. It's been debated whether the company did this out of genuine concern for its customers' health, to augment its dubious reputation for providing nutritional benefits or simply to get a head start on compliance with the Obama administration's healthcare reform laws.…

During their final few years of high school, students may be too busy filling out scholarship application after scholarship application and saving up money for college to have enough space in their heads to think about what's going to happen after they finally take their first steps on their college campus. After all, dealing with the inundation of new faces, a new routine and possibly navigating a new city all at once can be mind-boggling.…

Perhaps people don't normally think of hip hop artists as individuals they'd ask for a scholarship application. However, 42-year-old rapper and actress Queen Latifah has established a scholarship fund in honor of her brother, Lancelot Jr. Owens, reports Variety. Latifah's elder sibling tragically died during a motorcycle accident in 1992. Later that year, Rita L. Owens, mother of Lancelot Jr. and Latifah, founded the Lancelot H.…

It's going to cost almost 4 percent more to attend a private college in 2013. However, in a way, this is good news, because that's the smallest average amount tuition costs have risen since the 1970s, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).
The organization points out that while private universities have gotten more and more expensive, publicly funded colleges are seeming like a more fiscally wise option for some students.…

Most of the time, when older folks talk about how they used to walk miles through six feet of snow to get to school everyday, they're exaggerating. People who actually can recall days when schoolhouses only had one room, and towns would only employ one teacher expected to educate students of every age, are a dwindling lot.
In commemoration of such small town days of yore, the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) has established The One Room, One Teacher scholarship, which could allow its recipients to honor rural history while collecting financial aid for college.…

Statistics show that more students are enrolling in, and passing, advanced placement (AP) courses for college credit. Writing for the McClatchy-Tribune, vice president of the National Math and Science Initiative Greg Fleisher noted how AP courses prepare students for more rigorous college classes, and students who pass an AP exam are substantially more likely to go on to earn a college diploma than those who do not.…

Guidance counselors from the St. Charles County high school system in Maryland told a local newspaper their best tips for students seeking scholarships for college.
The first bit of advice dispensed by the counselors in the St. Charles Country Suburban Journal is a bit of a no-brainer. As merit scholarships based on students' grade point average (GPA), class rank and SAT scores are offered by many institutions for higher education, getting good grades throughout one's high school career could lead to receiving financial aid for college.…