EXTRA: Scholarship Opportunity

Your Humble Blogger got this in his email today. It sounds like something that a slick-writing, university-bound MC101 student would be interested in. If you're interested, contact GCC's Scholarship Director, Susan Borquez-Doutherty by phone at 818.240.1000 x5591 or by email at susand@glendale.edu.

Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:38:42
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Subject: [gcc] Another great scholarship opportunity-involves essay.

$1000 Scholarship!!!

Happy New Year!!! Second notice. Please pass this great opportunity
for $1000 scholarship to our students.. so far, I have no
applicants. The application is due to me by 1/20/09. Thanks much, Susan

Hi all: We have been getting notification of many outside
scholarship opportunities that have a significant award. These
require their own application and/or essay so I feel it's important
to pass it on to all of you because you are the best source of
students who might be interested. Here's another great
opportunity. Please encourage students who are skilled at writing to
apply. Please let me know if you have an interested student and I
can work with them. Thanks, Susan

>The Community College Baccalaureate Association (CCBA) is announcing
>its 6th Annual Student Essay Contest. The CCBA's website, located
>online at www.accbd.org, has been updated to include the 2009 essay
>topic, new contest rules, and entry information. This year, the CCBA
>is encouraging early entries.
> The winner of the essay contest will receive $1,000 and
> an all expense paid trip to the Sixth Annual Community College
> Baccalaureate Association Conference in Reno-Tahoe, Nevada from
> March 13-15, 2009. $1,000 will also be awarded to the Student
> Government Association of the winner's college.
> The essay topic for 2009 is "Why obtaining a four year
> degree on my community college campus would be important to me."
> Students who enter the contest should explore the issues of
> baccalaureate degrees on community college campuses in their essays.
> Baccalaureate degrees are now offered on community
> college campuses throughout the United States and Canada through
> University Centers, 2+2 programs, and Distance Learning. Community
> colleges in fourteen states and three Canadian provinces currently
> confer the degrees themselves. The CCBA is conducting the contest
> to determine what students think about community colleges offering
> baccalaureate (four-year) degrees. Any student currently enrolled
> in a community college is eligible, and there is no limit to the
> number of students per school that may enter.
> Contest entries must be postmarked by February 5, 2009
> and mailed to Dr. Beth Hagan, Community College Baccalaureate
> Association, P. O. Box 60210, Ft. Myers, FL 33906, or emailed by
> midnight February 5, 2009 to
> BHagan7@aol.com. The winner will be
> notified no later than February 10th.
> CCBA strives to promote better access to the
> baccalaureate degree on community college campuses, and to serve as
> a resource for information on various models for accomplishing this
> purpose. For more information, go online to
> www.accbd.org.