New
scholarship center offers aid
By Oscar Montealegre
On-line Forty-Niner
Obtaining
information on scholarship opportunities
is a complicated task. Students
For
that, Cal State Long Beach has recently
established the Center for Scholarship Information.
The
scholarship center is a service dedicated
to simplify students’ attempts in finding
scholarship opportunities.
This
center will offer students information on
scholarship opportunities in a variety of
categories. Available scholarships include:
academics, extracurricular (campus and non-academic),
athletics and competitive.
“The
purpose is really two-fold. One, the coordinator
is to work with various administrators on
campus to gather all scholarship information
that are scattered throughout the campus,”
said Mike Hostetler, associate vice president
and dean of students for Student Services.
“Second, after the first part has been accomplished,
the coordinator disseminates the information
to students who visit the scholarship center.”
Hostetler
also said it is important that the scholarship
center work with students to give them all
the possible scholarship information and
opportunities.
The
plan to implement a scholarship center was
first introduced in 1995, but due to certain
issues, the scholarship center was put on
hold.
However,
last spring under the Associated Students
Inc. presidency of Wayne Stickney-Smith,
the plan was reintroduced. The planning
process only took six months in order to
establish the scholarship center.
“Last
year the student government saw a need of
some type of centralized scholarship information,”
said Wayne Stickney-Smith, coordinator of
scholarship information center for scholarship
information. “We proposed our idea to the
president and vice president. Then it was
identified that we really needed a center
for scholarship information.”
Stickney-Smith
said that the sole reason to create a scholarship
center was the lack of a center that can
assist students on campus.
“Where
do the students go to find scholarships?
If they go to the office of financial aid,
they are sent to look at a thick binder,”
Stickney-Smith said. “For other scholarships
on campus you have to walk around and talk
to the department chairs or department offices.
But obviously students need money, so the
center for scholarship information is a
great resource for students,” Stickney?Smith
said.
The
center is located on the first floor of
the University Student Union, in the Beach
Pride office. For more information, e-mail
scholarships@csulb.edu
or call (562) 985-2549.
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