FLAGSTAFF — Scholarship season has begun and Coconino Community College would like to help students secure scholarship funding for the 2016-17 academic year.
Representatives from the CCC Financial Aid Department and the Arizona Community Foundation will guide students through the process of applying for college scholarships at CCC and from external donors. The seminar will be 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the CCC Lone Tree Campus Board Room, 2800 S. Lone Tree Road, in Flagstaff. The seminar will also be broadcast to the Page Instructional Site. The event is free and open to prospective and current students and their parents.
“We sincerely hope that as many students as possible can attend because we provide a wealth of information that often leads to scholarship money,” said Scott Talboom, Executive Director of the CCC Foundation.
Talboom added that every year, there are scholarships at CCC that go unawarded because of a lack of applicants. Last academic year, CCC disbursed more than $100,000 in scholarships to students.
The application period for scholarships for the 2016-17 academic year has begun, and runs through March 21, 2016.
For more information about CCC scholarships, call Rachel Edelstein at (928) 226-4384, or visit the CCC Foundation at www.coconinofoundation.org. For information on scholarships available statewide, visit the Arizona Community Foundation at www.azfoundation.org.
About Coconino Community College: Student success is the heart and purpose of Coconino Community College. CCC provides affordable tuition and a wide variety of certificates and degrees including career/technical programs with nearly 50 certificate programs and two-year associate degrees in various fields including nursing, fire science, law enforcement and business. The award-winning CCC2NAU program provides an innovative way to smooth a student’s path toward a bachelor’s degree at Northern Arizona University with tailored advisement and institutional collaboration, including access to amenities at NAU.
Since 1991, CCC has served residents across 18,000 square miles of Coconino County. CCC has helped create the region’s skilled workforce, which is improving overall health, safety and the economy in the region. Today, CCC serves more than 7,500 students per year with two campuses in Flagstaff.
CCC reaches out to the more rural portions of the County including Williams, the Grand Canyon/Tusayan, Page/Lake Powell, Fredonia, Tuba City and other remote areas on the Navajo, Hopi and Supai Tribal Lands. Instructional sites offer classes through online, in-person and Interactive Television classes to meet the needs of students in these rural and remote areas. Nearly 25 percent of CCC’s students are Native American learners.