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Scholarships for SUNY Canton

Students and Recent Alumni Available

The Lansdown, Va.-based Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has opened the nominations process for the largest scholarship available to two-year students and recent alumni continuing to complete their four-year degrees.

Through the Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program, the private foundation will award up to $30,000 annually per recipient to help students and recent alumni from two-year institutions pursue four-year degrees at any accredited college or university in the United States and abroad. Last year, the Foundation received nearly 700 nominations for these awards, two of them from SUNY Canton.

"The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarships could be applied to a student's tuition as they transition from one of our two-year to one of our four-year programs," said SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy. "If a student is selected by our on-campus nomination committee, they will receive a $500 scholarship from SUNY Canton."

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarships can provide funding for tuition, room and board, and required fees and books for the length of an undergraduate degree. Each award can total up to $30,000 annually, though the amounts will vary based on such factors as the cost of institution each recipient attends.

The Foundation plans to award approximately 50 scholarships through this program in spring, 2007. It will review awards each year based upon student performance. Current students are eligible, as are alumni who earned a degree from a two-year institution since May 2002, and have not since transferred to a four-year college. All candidates for the scholarship must be nominated by a faculty representative at their community or two-year institution. The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2007. For more information, contact SUNY Canton faculty representative Victoria Rosenholtz, at 315-386-7873, or visit the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation online at www.jackkentcookefoundation.org, or by calling 1-800-498-6478.

The Foundation is a private, independent foundation established in 2000, by the estate of Jack Kent Cooke. Mr. Cooke was a businessman and philanthropist who owned professional sports teams including the Los Angeles Lakers and the Washington Redskins. When he died in 1997, he left most of his fortune to establish the Foundation to help young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education.

This Scholarship comes in addition to the approximately $220,000 in annual scholarships available through the SUNY Canton College Foundation. For more information, contact Foundation staff members at 315-386-7082.

SUNY Canton is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year and is in the midst of its highly successful SUNY Canton Centennial Campaign: Cultivating the Minds of Tomorrow. In addition to 22 associate degree programs, SUNY Canton currently offers 12 four-year degrees with plans to announce several other new programs during the next academic year. SUNY Canton also offers three unique master's degrees in conjunction with SUNYIT, Utica.

November 29, 2006

Media inquiries should be directed to Greg Kie, Media Relations Coordinator, or call 315/386-7528.

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