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The growing expense of a college education is a major concern to all of us. Last year this topic arose during the Chapter's debate on how to support the Greek Language Schools of St. Sophia and St. George, and led to the Chapter's decision to help parents and their children by expanding the Chapter's Ahepa scholarship programs.
This concern extends even to the most affluent communities. Nationally, internet web sites, such as www.fastweb.com have sprouted quickly to focus generally on available scholarships. More specific sites have also been created for ethnic communities such as the Hispanic web sites, the African-American web sites, and Asian-American web sites. So, too, many church oriented web sites have been established to help parents and students pay for their college educations.
The Greek American community is no exception. However, while quite a number of individual scholarships are available to students in our community, we could find no one source that provided a satisfactory overview and compendium of information that would be useful to this community. For example, in its web site: goarch.org, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese features a number of scholarships intended for students of the Orthodox faith but, justifiably, makes no effort to be comprehensive. Likewise the Ahepa website: Ahepa.org does the same for scholarships available through the Ahepa at the national level or offered through the Districts or through Chapters. Try as we might, we could find no website sufficiently comprehensive to be a one stop "shopping Center" to satisfy Greek American students and their parents.
We concluded that Chapter 31, through its website, as well as through its newsletter, could offer a "clearinghouse" of information relating to sources of scholarship aid. Scholarships available to Greek American students, as well as tips and suggestions on how to apply.
Additional information could be featured, such as the new Federal Law, PL110-84, based on a bill introduced by Congressman John Sarbanes which "forgives" college tuition charges in exchange for commitments to serve a specific term with the Federal Government or perform other public service under IRS 501(c)(3).
If there is sufficient interest, we could enlarge and expand both the Chapter31 Newsletter and the web site to encourage readers to submit or post new information. We could provide…. much like the Wikipedia… the uploading, amendment or correction of information appearing on the site.
Your comments and suggestions are welcomed; and would be very much appreciated.
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