Though the General Assembly has allocated millions of dollars to establish a new need-based scholarship, experts warn that it won’t cover the cost for low-income and rural students.
As a kid, Sophia Wootten was told people might never understand her. She was born with a cleft lip and palate and spoke with a speech impediment. But Saturday evening, Wootten she was crowned 2026 Miss Georgia.
Georgia is an outlier when it comes to the money available for college students without the money for an education or the grades and test scores for a merit-based scholarship. But that could be changing with the expansion of the University of Georgia Foundation’s DREAMS Scholarship program announced by Gov. Brian Kemp Thursday.
Georgia College and State University has been given a $9 million donation from the late Gertrude Ehrlich’s estate, the largest in the school’s 136-year history, the university announced Friday morning.
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is donating $50 million to Atlanta’s historically Black colleges and universities. The money will support nearly 10,000 students with “gap scholarships” if they are approaching graduation in good academic standing and have exhausted all other financing.
Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.
Georgia college students who get into legal or disciplinary trouble in campus protests could also lose their scholarships, if a bill making its way through the state House becomes law.
A new scholarship program for students at historically black colleges and universities bears the name of former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young.
Peyton Manning has set up a scholarship at Georgia Tech honoring former teammate Demaryius Thomas. The NFL receiving great died in December from an apparent seizure at his suburban Atlanta home.
A test of Central Michigan University's new messaging system "inadvertently" told 58 students they won an award that provides full tuition, room and board, money toward books and supplies and $5,000.
