Canton Student Loan Foundation gives monetary support

Canton Student Loan Foundation gives monetary assist

CANTON ‒ Canton Student Loan Foundation, a nonprofit group, is providing scholar loans to Stark County graduates. The loans will be utilized to any undergraduate course of research, together with four-year faculty levels, two-year affiliate levels and levels or certifications from expertise and commerce colleges. There aren’t any charges and curiosity, and funds are deferred whereas the scholar is at school.

To be eligible for a mortgage, college students will need to have graduated from a Stark County highschool, have, and keep, a 2.0 grade-point common, and be pursuing a post-high college schooling/coaching. Graduate college loans are additionally accessible. There is not any deadline to use.

To apply on-line, go to cantonstudentloan.org. Contact the Canton Student Loan Foundation at 330-493-0020 or electronic mail information@cantonstudentloan.org with any questions.

Haws Leadership Scholarship accessible for GlenOak seniors

PLAIN TWP. – Applications are being taken for the 2026 Haws Leadership Scholarship. This annual award was established to assist graduating GlenOak High School seniors who exhibit a steadfast dedication to excellence of their college and neighborhood.

Plain Township Trustee Scott Haws will present this scholarship to a deserving scholar who exemplifies management and dedication. To be thought of for the award, candidates should meet the next necessities:

• Academic standing: Maintain a minimal 3.0 GPA.
• Demonstrated excellence: Proven success in teachers, athletics, management and neighborhood service.
• Athletics: Recipients will need to have earned not less than one varsity letter at GlenOak High School.
• College enrollment: Proof of acceptance to an accredited faculty or college.

Application necessities: Interested seniors should submit an entire software package deal, which incorporates:

• Personal essay: A one-page, single-spaced essay (12-point font) detailing how their private involvement in varied actions has made a distinction.
• Recommendations: Two letters of reference (one from a Plain Local School District employees member and one from an individual outdoors the district).
• Transcript: A duplicate of the scholar’s present Plain Local Schools transcript.
• Activity documentation: Lists of varsity letters, present lively management roles, and neighborhood volunteerism.

The deadline for all software supplies is March 31. For extra data or to acquire an software, college students could contact the scholarship committee straight by electronic mail at hawss31@gmail.com.

Completed functions have to be emailed to hawss31@gmail.com or postmarked by the deadline to the next deal with: Haws Leadership Scholarship Committee, 3805 Teakwood St. NE, Canton OH 44721.

Alzheimer’s Foundation gives scholarships

The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America is providing scholarships of as much as $5,000 to college-bound highschool seniors who’ve expertise with Alzheimer’s illness or different dementia-related diseases, as a part of its annual Teen Alzheimer’s Awareness Scholarship. Entries will be submitted at www.alzfdn.org/scholarship and have to be obtained by 5 p.m. March 1.

Eligible teenagers can apply with an essay (1,500 phrases most) or a video (not more than 4 minutes) describing how Alzheimer’s illness has formed their lives, what they’ve realized about themselves, their household and/or their neighborhood via their expertise with Alzheimer’s, and the way they plan to advocate or elevate consciousness sooner or later.

Examples of ways in which Alzheimer’s impacted a scholar’s life can embody:

• Having a cherished one with Alzheimer’s illness or one other dementia-related sickness.
• Helping care for somebody with Alzheimer’s illness or one other dementia-related sickness.
• Volunteering or working in a care setting that serves people with dementia.
• Raising Alzheimer’s consciousness of their college or neighborhood.
• Conducting Alzheimer’s analysis.

The program is open to present highschool seniors residing within the United States who shall be attending a U.S. faculty or college this fall. Students already attending faculty usually are not eligible to take part.

The high prize awarded is a $5,000 scholarship. Additional prizes are awarded for runners up and honorable mentions. The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America supplies these scholarship funds via the assist of charitable donors.

Walsh University Promise Grant accessible

NORTH CANTON ‒ Walsh University has launched the Promise Grant, a monetary support program for high-achieving college students with vital monetary want, making it doable for them to pursue a Walsh schooling tuition-free.

To qualify for the grant, college students should meet these eligibility necessities:

• File FAFSA kind by the precedence deadline and qualify for a need-based Federal Pell Grant.
• Be an Ohio resident.
• Have earned a highschool GPA of three.75 or greater.
• Enroll as a standard, full-time, first-year scholar pursuing their first bachelor’s diploma.
• Demonstrate monetary want in step with Pell Grant eligibility, typically related to family incomes of $65,000 or much less, although eligibility could fluctuate based mostly on family measurement and different elements

The award is renewable for as much as eight semesters for college kids who keep full-time enrollment, stay in good educational standing, and proceed progressing towards their diploma.

For extra details about the WU Promise Grant, go to walsh.edu/admissions/wupromise or contact the Office of Admissions at admissions@walsh.edu.

Mount Union launches affiliate’s to grasp’s pathway for OT, PT assistants

ALLIANCE – The University of Mount Union has developed a brand new pathway for certified occupational remedy assistants and bodily remedy assistants with affiliate levels to earn their grasp of science in occupational remedy.

With no bachelor’s diploma required to pursue this pathway, anybody with not less than 90 semester credit and an relevant affiliate’s diploma is inspired to use. Students should additionally full all MSOT conditions with a grade of C or higher to be thought of for admission.

The subsequent cohort begins in August, and people can study extra and apply at mountunion.edu/ota-pta-to-msot.