Students at Iowa Lakes Community College who are looking at transferring to a four-year institution upon graduation 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 scholarships available to students and recent alumni from community colleges. Through the initiative, entitled the Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program, this 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 or abroad.

Through the program, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation plans to award approximately 50 scholarships in spring 2008. It will renew awards each year based upon student performance. Current students are eligible, as are alumni who earned a degree from a community or two-year institution since May 2002 and have not yet transferred to a four-year college. All candidates for the scholarship must be nominated by the college’s representative. Application deadline is January 15, 2008, as all nominations from Iowa Lakes Community College must be completed by February 1, 2008.

Those interested in applying for this scholarship should contact Shan Ray, Executive Director of Institutional Advancement at Iowa Lakes Community College, at 800-242-5106 ext. 4491, 712-362-0491 or e-mail sray@iowalakes.edu.