Scholarship launched at Western Governors College in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) – A web-based college is providing a scholarship in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Western Governors College launched the “I Have a Dream” Scholarship final week to help adults who’ve confronted struggles of their lives that will have prevented them from reaching their targets in training or advancing their careers.

The scholarships can be found to new and returning college students enrolling in any of WGU’s undergraduate and graduate diploma packages in IT, enterprise, trainer training and well being professions, together with nursing. The scholarships are every valued at as much as $4,000 and are utilized at a fee of $1,000 per six month time period, renewable for as much as 4 phrases. To use for the scholarship, you possibly can go to WGU’s web site. Functions are being accepted by way of June 30, 2023 and scholarships will probably be awarded primarily based on educational file, faculty expertise and different components.

“As we mirror on the activism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who labored tirelessly to finish the injustices of racial and financial inequality, we proceed to be impressed by his imaginative and prescient for the longer term,” Dr. Terrance Hopson, Regional Vice President of Western Governors College, stated in a launch. “In that spirit, we’re proud to supply this scholarship alternative for working adults who’ve the braveness to dream past what they thought was as soon as unimaginable, the resilience to rise up and take a look at once more, and the dedication to alter their legacy for the higher by incomes a university diploma from WGU with minimal monetary limitations.”

For extra details about WGU and the “I Have a Dream” Scholarships, you can go to the WGU web site.

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