Lori & Eric Swanson Scholarship
The Fund intends to establish a scholarship that awards a student who had to overcome a significant life event that interfered with the ability to pursue College or is currently going through difficult circumstances that interfered with the ability to continue College, such as:
- Being a parent of a special needs or disabled child/adult.
- Being a family caregiver for an elderly parent, special needs, or disabled child/adult.
- A single parent who had to put off College to raise child(ren).
The student will have had to have completed PLGL 1100, Introduction to Paralegal Studies, and received a grade of “B” or better, in order to be eligible to receive this scholarship.
The money from this Fund is intended to cover in-district tuition and fees plus the cost of textbooks/eBooks /online course subscriptions for required paralegal program courses only necessary to complete the paralegal studies certificate or degree.
- Award
- Varies
- Deadline
- 04/22/2024
- Supplemental Questions
- Short Essay explaining need and circumstances (minimum 1 page but no longer than 2 pages, double-spaced in times new roman size 12 font, using proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling), including why you want to pursue being a paralegal. Please incorporate in your response if you fall under any of the following categories: Being a parent of a special needs or disabled child/adult / Being a family caregiver for an elderly parent, special needs, or disabled child/adult / A single parent who had to put off College to raise child(ren).
- Submit unofficial COD transcript.