Tag: Scholarships
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CMC receives $17,000 from Kaiser Permanente as part of a statewide community college scholarship campaign
Kaiser Permanente and Colorado Mountain College collaborated to distribute the following release. Funds will be awarded as scholarships to students enrolled in health science programs at Colorado Mountain College DENVER – Kaiser Permanente has announced new grant funding for students studying in community college health science programs on the Western Slope. A $90,000 matching grant…
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Colorado Mountain College Receives $17,000 Investment From Kaiser Permanente
Part of Statewide Community College Scholarship Campaign Funds will be awarded as scholarships to students enrolled in health science programs at Colorado Mountain College through the Campaign for Colorado Community Colleges DENVER – Kaiser Permanente has announced new grant funding for students studying in community college health science programs on the Western Slope. A $90,000…
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Scholarship due date nears for Colorado Mountain College students
More than $600,000 in scholarships are available for qualified students attending Colorado Mountain College, but the time to act is now. Deadlines vary, but applications for many of the college’s scholarships are due March 1. The CMC Foundation offers and administers more than 300 scholarships. In order to apply for these, students must be pursuing…
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Regional: Son of Storm King firefighter reflects on 20th anniversary
This article featuring Andy Tyler, recipient of the CMC Foundation‘s Storm King 14 Memorial Scholarship, first ran in the Glenwood Post Independent. When Tulane University student Andy Tyler began looking at internship possibilities for the summer before his senior year, it seemed only natural that he would end up in western Colorado, where he was born…
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Learning English propels high school graduates to CMC
Aspen, Basalt grads on their way to college, thanks to Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarships El Salvador and the Dominican Republic are thousands of miles away in distance and culture from the Roaring Fork Valley. For two young men, their journeys from being non-English-speaking immigrants to high school graduates, and their continuation to Colorado Mountain College…
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CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to Carbondale and Glenwood Springs students
This year’s Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship program is helping 11 students from Western Slope high schools attend Colorado Mountain College. Alpine Bank has been awarding scholarships to qualified students since the program began in 1996 and, to date, has financed more than 170 scholarships. ENews has been running a series of profiles on these hopeful,…
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College now possible for Steamboat High School graduate
Student Celeste Portillo will attend CMC on Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship Celeste Portillo doesn’t yet quite know what direction she wants to go academically when she attends Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs this coming fall. But she is determined about one thing. “I might not know exactly how to answer the question, ‘What do…
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CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to local students
Three students earn assistance to attend Colorado Mountain College This year’s Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship program is helping 11 students from Western Slope high schools attend Colorado Mountain College next fall. Three graduating seniors from Eagle County were recently named as Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholars: Andy Sandoval from Eagle Valley High School, Thelma Juarez from…
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CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to local student
Hard work, leadership result in success, gratitude When Cinthia Valderrama saw a hungry man come into La Perla, the restaurant where she worked while attending Summit High School, she didn’t turn him away. Seeing that the man had only enough money to buy one taco, she reached into her own pocket and paid for his…
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FirstBank funds scholarship for Colorado Mountain College student
SUMMIT COUNTY – A student from Colorado Mountain College’s campus in Summit County has received the FirstBank First in Family scholarship. Ismael Quijada will receive up to $2,735 for tuition, books and fees. In total, four students were awarded the scholarship for first-generation students pursuing a bachelor’s degree or associate degree at the college’s locations…