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The Nissan Scholarship is privately funded (by Nissan, unsurprisingly), but was handed over to the state government to administer (because, I mean, car companies don't have administering scholarships as a core competency, and they naively thought the state government would take the money and administer it).
The LAW scholarship is for widows and orphans of police officers and firefighters who died in the line of duty.
I'm so angry right now I can't even talk
Squinch
(51,074 posts)have too many highly educated people and they need to tone it down.
This will solve the problem by drastically reducing the number of people who can afford higher education.
Because you send them off to school, and suddenly they think the polar caps are melting.
Warpy
(111,407 posts)How very self defeating of them.
Restrictions on grants like the LAW grant aren't unusual. My parents' idea of funding my education was to hand me a catalog of unclaimed scholarships and grants. They should have saved their money, most went unclaimed because the people who had set them up 50-100 years earlier had set some utterly idiotic restrictions on them, like offspring of union members working for a particular company who had lost limbs on the job, said company having gone under in the Depression.
It looks like the state, in its infinite wisdom, has decided you can take only one grant per semester, although it has most generously allowed you to take the biggest one. Never mind tuition has now inflated to the point that one grant just won't do it and in addition there are also living expenses to be considered.
Good old Mississippi, protecting its hard won status as last state in the union for quality of live for over 100 years.
(I have to say driving through northern MS was like driving into the 1940s, a highway in AL going down to a 2 lane road with a suicide lane in the middle and absolutely no amenities like gas stations available unless you took a side trip into a little town, never knowing if you'd find a gas station because no signage)