College Catalog 2019-20

EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Recipients will be chosen by a committee composed of the Director of Career & Technical Education, an Instructional Counselor, and an instructor in the Career & Technical Education area. The Director of Career & Technical Education will be responsible for notifying qualified high school students as to the availability of the scholarships. First Course Tuition Free Scholarship — East Central Community College provides a scholarship to encourage adults who have not previously attended college to enroll. Any adult in the ECCC five-county district registering as a part-time student, who has not previously enrolled in college, and who otherwise meets requirements may take the first college credit course tuition free at any location in the district. The student will be responsible for any applicable fees. For purposes of this scholarship, an adult is anyone 21 years of age or older who has graduated from high school or who has passed the GED Test and has been out of high school for more than one year. The tuition scholarship will be awarded for the first course only. In order to receive the scholarship, the student must complete a scholarship application from and submit it to the Vice President for Student Services Office for the student’s eligibility to be verified. Non-Traditional Student Tuition Scholarship for Full-Time Students — The non-traditional student tuition scholarship will be available to any qualified Mississippi resident 23 years of age or older at the time of initial enrollment and who enrolls full-time at East Central Community College in Decatur. The scholarship will be available to the student for three (3) consecutive semesters following the first fifteen semester hours earned as either a part-time or full-time student at East Central. To be eligible, a recipient: 1. Must enroll as a full-time academic or technical student on the Decatur campus. 2. Must have earned all previous college credit as a student at East Central; 3. Must have earned a minimum of 15 semester hours but no more than 21 semester hours of college credit as either a full-time or part-time student at East Central Community College; 4. Must have demonstrated the capacity and a strong desire to obtain a college education by maintaining a 3.0 GPA or higher for each previous semester at East Central; 5. Must complete a scholarship application form and submit it to the Vice President for Student Services’ office; and, 6. Must show potential for leadership, academic excellence, and have high moral standards and good character as documented by two letters of recommendation. The recipients will be selected by the College Scholarship Committee from students who meet the criteria listed above. Proceeds from the scholarship will be credited to the recipients’ account in the Business Office and may be used to pay for in-state tuition only. Any student awarded the nontraditional student scholarship must maintain a 3.0 or higher grade point average (GPA) each semester and must remain enrolled as full-time student to retain the scholarship. Any student who does not maintain a 3.0 GPA and is removed from the scholarship may have the scholarship reinstated by earning the required 3.0 G.P.A. the following semester. ENDOWED AND ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS Endowed and annual scholarships are funded by individual and group donations and are made available to eligible students according to each scholarship’s guidelines. An application for these scholarships is required to be considered. Scholarship recipients are selected by the ECCC Scholarship Committee unless stated otherwise. The award amount for endowed scholarships is based upon earnings from the endowment corpus. The award amount for annual scholarships is stated in the scholarship criteria. Grade point averages are calculated on a 4.0 scale. Complete scholarship descriptions are available in the ECCC Foundation, Inc. office. Bobby Addy Memorial Scholarship — This scholarship is awarded to an incoming freshman from proceeds of the annual Bobby Addy Memorial Golf Tournament held at the Decatur Country Club. Dr. L. B. and Dixie Adkins Family Scholarship — This scholarship is awarded to a traditional or non- traditional student with preference given to descendants of the couple and to pre-healthcare or math education majors.

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