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The HOPE Scholarship
Funded by proceeds from the Georgia Lottery for Education, the HOPE scholarship rewards high-achieving high school students with financial assistance in degree, diploma or certificate programs at any eligible private or public college, university or technical institute in Georgia. Students at private colleges and universities in Georgia are eligible to receive $3,500 per year from HOPE towards the cost of tuition and other education-related costs. Eligible part-time students may receive $1,500 if they take a minimum of six (6) credit hours.
The HOPE PROMISE Teacher Scholarship
The PROMISE Teacher Scholarship is also funded by the Georgia Lottery for Education. PROMISE awards high-achieving students who agree to teach at a public school in Georgia upon graduation from college. Students may receive up to $3,000 per year beginning their junior year and continuing through their senior year in college.
The Georgia Tuition Equalization Grant
The Georgia Tuition Equalization Grant is designed to promote private higher education in Georgia by providing grant aid to Georgia residents who attend eligible private colleges and universities in Georgia, and to provide aid to Georgia residents who live near state borders and wish to attend certain four-year public colleges out of state. The Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges and its member colleges work to promote increases in the TEG by the legislature.
Governor's Scholarship
The Georgia Student Finance Commission administers the Governor's Scholarship to high school seniors who are valedictorians, salutatorians or STAR students of their class, or who have otherwise demonstrated exceptional achievement by being named Georgia scholars.
Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship
The Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship program provides scholarships to students who are the first members of their immediate families to go to college. GFIC's 25 private colleges and universities participate in the program, as well as more than 350 other institutions in 30 other states. Since its inception in 1986, The Coca-Cola Foundatin has awarded more than $14 million in scholarships to First Generation students.
UPS scholarships
The Atlanta-based UPS Foundation has been a major national supporter of the Foundation for Independent Higher Education (FIHE). Through the UPS Educational Endowment Fund, which is held and administered by FIHE, 639 private institutions received UPS scholarships.
In Georgia, each of the member campuses receives a UPS scholarship through GFIC for a student with financial need and academic merit. In 2007-2008, the scholarship award was $2,850. Since its inception, the UPS Educational Endowment Fund has generated nearly $41 million in scholarship support.
Additional funds have been budgeted through the UPS National Venture Fund and the First Opportunity Partners Venture Fund for matching grants to support innovative programs designed to improve educational services for private college students and to encourage collaboration among colleges.
Other GFIC scholarships
Other scholarships funded through GFIC include the Milliken & Company Scholarship, the SunTrust Scholarship, the Crawford and Company Scholarship, the William W. and Catherine M. Kelly Scholarship, the Greater Atlanta Electric League Scholarships, the Plantation Pipe Line Scholarship, the AFLAC Teacher Education Scholarships, The AFLAC Nursing Scholarships, and the Gary Lee Scholarship.
The Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc.
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