| ADHE awards 4,265 new Academic Challenge Scholarships for spring |
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| Monday, 03 January 2011 15:47 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: ADHE awards 4,265 new Academic Challenge Scholarships for spring LITTLE ROCK, AR – Today the Arkansas Department of Higher Education notified 4,265 new recipients via email of their Academic Challenge Scholarship awards for the spring 2011 term, amounting to $9.25 million in funds through the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery and ADHE. “We are pleased to be able to award 522 additional Current Achiever category students and 3,743 nontraditional category scholarships,” said Jim Purcell, Ed.D., director of ADHE. Of that number, some are expected to decline the scholarship, officials said, which will make those funds available to students on the waiting list. All funding has been exhausted, leaving 3,248 qualified non-traditional students enrolled at four-year universities in Arkansas without the Academic Challenge Scholarship. Final tally of the fall 2010 Academic Challenge Scholarship recipients numbered 30,575 students at two-year and four-year universities across the state. Those students who completed eligibility requirements in the fall will continue to receive scholarship funding in the spring. Final notification to spring applicants regarding awards will be sent in mid-January indicating whether there are funds available to them. Students who did not qualify will also be notified by mid-January. ### |