The Monroe Evening News has been sent this press release from the Nazareth Association:
Kalamazoo, MI – The Nazareth Association is offering two $1,000 scholarships to undergraduate students who will be a junior or senior attending a Catholic college or university during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Applicants must be full time students and maintain a minimum [...]

The 2010 Scholarships for Military Children application process has begun.
This is one of the few military scholarships that children of reserve and guard families qualify for. You don’t have to live on or near a military base, although the application process is handled through the commissaries such as the one at Selfridge Air National Guard [...]

This post is for my readers in Monroe County, Mich.
The Monroe County counselors and Monroe County Community  College will host their annual college expo from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 3 in the Welch Health Education Building on MCCC’s Main Campus, 1555 S. Raisinville Rd. in Monroe, Mich.
Admission representatives from more than 60 colleges [...]

This information is from the ARISE Detroit newsletter:
The Esquire Leadership & Mentor Program amd Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will host their second annual “College Day: A Wealth of Opportunity!”  starting at 9 a.m. Saturday Oct. 17 at the Eastern Michigan University Student Center, 900 Oakwood St., Ypsilanti.
This event is free to all southeast [...]

The CollegeScholarship blog says on this chart on their site: Please help spread the word. You may embed the image in your blog or on other sites so long as you reference the original source. So here’s the link and here’s the chart!

My “day job” is that of a newspaper reporter, but I have absolutely no pull with the Michigan state legislature.
It’s been years since I covered government issues, and my experience with that at The Monroe Evening News was limited to the communities of Bedford Township, Whiteford Township, Luna Pier and Erie Township.
Only one state lawmaker [...]

College Preview Night will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday Sept. 29 at Fifth Third Field, 406 Washington St., Toledo, Ohio.
This information expo is free and open to northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan high school students and their parents. There will be opportunities to learn about the admissions process, financial aid process and [...]

This post is for my Michigan readers:
The Michigan State University Library hosts a very extensive list of scholarships aimed at high school seniors and undergraduate students who live in Michigan, or plan to attend a Michigan college. You don’t have to fill out a profile form or read a bunch of advertisements to use this [...]

I picked up on the following notice when I was reading a Detroit-area newsletter. I sent an e-mail to the organizers, asking for a clarification on who is eligible and listed several cities in Monroe County and Downriver area that are in my local readership area.
The reply I got was “All Detroit area high school [...]

If you have a college student in the family, you may run into a situation where the student drops a class or drops out of school after the semester begins.
One of the reasons that class drops happen is that the course is too difficult for the students’ abilities. That’s why so many classes have prerequisites, [...]