Dave Matthews Band has provided $50,000 for a scholarship for a Charlottesville or Albemarle County 16-24 year old. The Fight for Your Rights Leadership Scholarship, which is being run by MTV, is also providing scholarships to four youths in Houston and New York, sponsored by Destiny’s Child, Method Man and Mena Suvari. Interested individuals can apply on-line. The winners will be announced on October 24th. The story is from today’s Daily Progress.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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Thats just plain F*cked up. You have to be enrolled in high school or an accredited 2 or 4 year college.
So they refuse to help out people who really need the money. Thats just great! This has significantly lowered my opinion of both the Dave Matthews band and MTV.
Yeah, I was thinking about applying, and I must admit that I was surprised to see that a requirement was that I be in college. If I were in college, I wouldn’t need that scholarship, would I? At least, not when compared to folks like myself that are not in college — myself for several reasons, not the least of which is that I don’t have $120k lying around. Lacking a scholarship, it is quite difficult for me to go to college.
I hope all scholarships aren’t like that, or else I’m stuck in a nasty catch-22.
Would you qualify if you were taking even just a single course at PVCC?
Kevin Cox
I don’t know — “enrolled in” is sort of a nebulous term, isn’t it? Perhaps you have to be on a track — as defined by the college — for a degree? I’d hate to trick my way into a scholarship, but I think I’ll keep this in mind for all future scholarships that have this requirement. :)
It wouldn’t have to be a trick. You can be on track for a degree and still take a class or two a semester. Lots of folks without a lot of resources do it.
Kevin Cox
Have you considered PVCC Waldo? Plenty of people have gone from there to UVa and other four year colleges. Two years at Piedmont makes it a whole lot cheaper too. If you did enroll at PVCC we might be classmates. :)
Kevin Cox
Have you considered PVCC Waldo? Plenty of people have gone from there to UVa and other four year colleges.
Actually, I did take a couple of semesters there a couple of years ago. My girlfriend went there for two years, and moved from there to UVa, where she’s a rising fourth-year. My problem right now is that I really need whole-hog school: something to wholly devote myself to, where I can live on campus and do nothing but school for four years. If I went to PVCC, it would be a part-time thing, and I’d have to have an apartment and all the trappings in life that go along with that, and I feel that I would get the most out of my education like that. (I’d thought otherwise, hence my two semesters, but I was wrong.)
But that’s just how I’d like to do it — I can definitely appreciate, and I have definitely extolled the values of, going to a community college for two years and moving on to a traditional four-year college to complete a four-year degree. So many colleges put you in the same classes for the first two years, where you and several hundred other freshmen and sophomores sit in huge auditoriums while a disinterested professor lectures you and TAs passively grade your work. Or you could be given the same information with ten other folks at PVCC. Given that choice, I’d like PVCC, please. :)
I dont know about the scholarship rules, but I’d assume there is something in the fine print about being a full time student.
I’ve attended PVCC, and was totally turned off by the whole experience. I’d get off work, drive to PVCC, and sit through 3 hours
of the instructor going over the same simple material over and over again for the benefit of the hordes of 40somthing
rednecks who want to get a degree so they dont have to continue washing dishes or pumping gas for the rest of their lives.
I just stopped showing up, It wasnt worth the torture. I feel sorry for anyone who’s had the
same unfortunate experience as I have, if only we could get our money back.
Lars
Did you read the requirements? It says that those who are eligible include students enrolled in a public or private high school, or graduates of a public or private high school, or students enrolled fulltime in an accredited 2 or 4 year college. It does not say that students who graduated from a public or private high school and are therefore eligible have to be currently enrolled fulltime in an accredited 2 or 4 year college.
Kevin Cox
Are You Eligible?
You’re hungry for social justice and need assistance with college tuition. But are you eligible for this scholarship? To qualify you must:
– Be a high school senior or an undergraduate student at an accredited 2 or 4-year college or university.
http://www.mtv.com/onair/ffyr/challenge_grant2.jhtml
I don’t know, I think that’s pretty clear.
Did you read the bottom of that page where it says “Download the official rules and application”? Download and read that. The initial description of the eligibility requirements is not complete. The official rules clearly say that you must be enrolled in a public or private high school OR BE A GRADUATE OF A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL or be enrolled full time in an accredited 2 or 4 year college.
Kevin Cox
I sent the following e-mail to the FFYR scholarship folks.
“Please clarify something. When I click on the “Are you eligible?” link on the FFYR scholarship page I see that it says that to be eligible one must “Be a high school senior or an undergraduate student at an accredited 2 or 4-year college or university.” This makes it sound as though one must be currently in school to be eligible. However, the eligibility section of the official rules says, “The competition is open to U.S. residents who are between 16 and 24 years of age and who are high school seniors OR GRADUATES OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS or full-time undergraduate students at accredited two or four-year colleges or universities” That sounds like one who is a graduate of a public or private high school but is not currently enrolled in college and who meets all the other eligibility requirements would be eligible. Is that so?
Thank You,
Kevin Cox ”
I’ll post the answer (if I receive one ).
Kevin Cox
I sent the following e-mail to the FFYR scholarship folks.
“Please clarify something. When I click on the “Are you eligible?” link on the FFYR scholarship page I see that it says that to be eligible one must “Be a high school senior or an undergraduate student at an accredited 2 or 4-year college or university.” This makes it sound as though one must be currently in school to be eligible. However, the eligibility section of the official rules says, “The competition is open to U.S. residents who are between 16 and 24 years of age and who are high school seniors OR GRADUATES OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS or full-time undergraduate students at accredited two or four-year colleges or universities” That sounds like one who is a graduate of a public or private high school but is not currently enrolled in college and who meets all the other eligibility requirements would be eligible. Is that so?
Thank You,
Kevin Cox ”
I’ll post the answer (if I receive one ).
Kevin Cox
Here’s their answer:
“Yes, if you are between the ages of 16 and 24 and have completed high school
and are planning to go to college, you are eligible. Please note, the rules
state that scholarship awards are contingent upon an applicants ability to
demonstrate proof of enrollment at an accredited 2 or 4 year college or
university.”
Are you going try for it Waldo?
Kevin Cox