Local Financial Aid
Posted on January 25th, 2008
The Counselor's Corner blog made an excellent point about financial aid: some of the best sources of aid are local.
The nice people at the Counselor's Corner give their own examples. I went looking for a few myself that might illustrate the point.
One example is Bluefield State College. Their financial aid page mentions scholarships available at the school from (or funded by) American Electric Power. There's the Cardinal Resources/Raysal Area Scholarship awarded to a student from Raysal, WV. Bluefield State is in the heart of Appalachia, and a number of the region's major coal-related companies have scholarship funds available; some stipulate that a recipient must be interested in engineering technology and/or in a career in mining. Several local businesses have endowed scholarships. And there are almost two dozen scholarships that bear the name of a foundation or have been created in memory of some individual.
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