JACK KENT COOKE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Students at Iowa Lakes Community College who are looking at transferring may want to apply for a scholarship which is open only to community college students.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has opened the nomination process for the largest scholarships available to students and recent alumni from community colleges. Through the initiative, called the Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program, the private foundation will award up to $30,000 annually per recipient to help students and recent alumni from community colleges pursue four-year degrees at any accredited college or university in the United States and abroad.

Awards will provide funding for tuition, room and board, required fees, and books for the length of the undergraduate degree, generally two years. Each award can total up to $30,000 annually, though the amounts will vary based on such factors as the cost of the institution each recipient attends.

Through the program, the Foundation plans to award approximately 30 scholarships in spring of 2006 for use during the 2006-2007 academic year. It will renew each award in subsequent years based upon student performance.
Candidates for the scholarship must be nominated by the representative at their community college. At Iowa Lakes Community College, the contact is Shan Ray, Executive Director of Institutional Advancement. She can be reached by phone at (712) 362-0491; or via e-mail at sray@iowalakes.edu.

All application materials must be received in the Institutional Advancement Office by January 13, 2006.

The list of application materials is available on the Foundation’s Web site, www.jackkentcookefoundation.org, or by calling 1-800-498-6478.

The Foundation is a private, independent foundation established in 2000 by the estate of Jack Kent Cooke to help young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education.