Lori & Eric Swanson Scholarship

This application is for Fall 2025.

PURPOSE: 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

Applicants must have the following criteria:

• 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.