DETROIT ECONOMIC CLUB SCHOLARSHIP:
Counselor nominations: February 1, 2008 deadline. Student nominee
scholarship packets: April 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants must be
high school seniors in public or private high schools in Wayne,
Oakland or Macomb counties who begin full-time college enrollment
in the fall of 2008. Up to two $2,000 renewable scholarships are
awarded each year. Each fall, a call for nominations is distributed
to high school counselors in the geographic target area. Students
must first be nominated by their counselor based on scholastic,
social and financial need, and then invited to apply for scholarship
consideration. Therefore, no application form is available online.
DETROIT TIGERS WILLIE HORTON SCHOLARSHIP:
April 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants must be graduating seniors
at Northwestern High School in Detroit. One nonrenewable scholarship
of up to $5,000 is awarded each year. Applications are available
at this link or at Northwestern High School. Download application
ROBERT HOLMES SCHOLARSHIP:
April 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants must be dependents of eligible
Michigan Teamsters and high school seniors who will attend a Michigan
college or university in the fall of 2007 as a full-time student.
The program awards up to six $1,000 nonrenewable scholarships.
Applications are available through this link or at any Teamster
Union Local throughout the state of Michigan. Download application
CHRIS KURZWEIL SCHOLARSHIP:
April 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants must be dependents of Intertape
Polymer Group (formerly American Tape) employees and high school
seniors who will begin full-time college enrollment in the fall
of 2008. The program awards up to two $2,000 renewable scholarships.Download
application .
CARY MOORE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND:
April 2, 2008 deadline. This $1,500 annual scholarship is awarded
to the male varsity athlete from North Farmington High School
student who best personifies school spirit and good sportsmanship
as determined by an advisory committee composed of faculty and
staff. Download application
DICK DEPAOLIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP:
April 2, 2008 deadline. This $500 scholarship goes to the North
Farmington High School graduating senior who demonstrates leadership,
good grades and is a male varsity athlete who will enter college
majoring in liberal studies, especially History and English. Candidates
are selected by a committee of faculty and staff. An application
will be posted in the near future and will be available at North
Farmington High School. Download application
THE RENAISSANCE OF VALUES SCHOLARSHIP
FUND: Check with schools for deadline.
Each year, a call for nominations is made to three area schools-Faith
Christian Academy, Cornerstone Schools and Everest Academy-to
select one candidate from each school for consideration to receive
a nonrenewable scholarship of up to $6,000 for private high school
education. Applications are available at the select schools; no
application form is available online.
JEAN AND TOM ROSENTHAL SCHOLARSHIP
PROGRAM: April 1, 2008 deadline.
Candidates must be graduating seniors at Pontiac Northern or Pontiac
Central High School. The program awards two $1,000 scholarships
that are renewable for an additional year. Notices of scholarship
eligibility are distributed to all counselors and principals at
each high school, and candidates are chosen by a committee of
counselors and staff. Download application
VIRGIL K. LOBRING SCHOLARSHIP:
April 1, 2008 deadline. This $1,500 scholarship is awarded to
the Southwestern High School graduating senior who shows both
leadership and academic achievement and demonstrates the greatest
improvement from the time of his/her freshman year. Candidates
are selected by a committee of faculty and staff. Application
is available at this link and will be available at Southwestern
High School
JEPTHA WADE SCHUREMAN SCHOLARSHIP
PROGRAM: June 2, 2008 deadline.
Applicants must be residents of Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Lenawee,
Monroe, Livingston, Washtenaw, or St. Clair counties at the time
of high school graduation and must be fatherless either through
death or through termination of parental rights. Recipients
must attend one of the 15 nonprofit, public universities in Michigan
and must be pursuing, or plan to pursue, a degree in the fields
of law, nursing, medicine or dentistry. The program will award
up to four scholarships of $7,500 to one of Michigan’s 15
public, nonprofit universities. Download application
ORDOÑEZ FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP:
April 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants must be residents of southwest
Detroit and have attended a southwest Detroit high school for
their entire secondary education. The program awards one scholarships
of $2,500, renewable for up to four years. Download application
OTIS M. SMITH SCHOLARSHIP:
May 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants must be single mothers who are
residents of Wayne, Oakland or Macomb counties and attend or will
attend Wayne State University, any campus of the University of
Michigan or Catholic University Law School in Washington, D.C.
Priority is given to full-time students, but part-time students
may also be considered. The program awards up to four nonrenewable
scholarships of $3,000. Download application
SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER
SCHOLARSHIP: April 1, 2008 deadline.
Applicants must be high school seniors in one of the 21 communities
in the Southern Wayne County Regional Chamber service area (Allen
Park, Belleville, Brownstown, Ecorse, Flat Rock, Gibraltar, Grosse
Ile, Huron, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, River Rouge, Riverview,
Rockwood, Romulus, Southgate, Sumpter, Taylor, Trenton, Van Buren,
Woodhaven, Wyandotte) who will begin full-time college enrollment
in the fall of 2008. The program awards up to two renewable scholarships
of $1,000. Applications are available through this link or from
high school counselors at schools in the target area. Download
application
ENRICO AND MARIE VESPA SCHOLARSHIP:
May 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants must be employees of English
Gardens or their legal, custodial dependents enrolled as full-
or part-time students in any form of higher education. The program
awards up to three $2,500 scholarships. While these scholarships
are nonrenewable, prior year recipients may reapply for future
scholarships. Download application
IMELDA "MEL" AND RALPH LeMAR
SCHOLARSHIP: April 1, 2008 deadline.
Applicants must be graduating seniors at Fowlerville High School
who will major in chemistry, physics, electrical or mechanical
engineering. The program awards one nonrenewable scholarship of
up to $900. Notice of eligibility is made known through public
notices and classroom presentations at Fowlerville High School,
and the candidate is chosen by a committee of faculty and staff.
Applications will be available at Fowlerville High School and
can be downloaded from this link
