The Richmond Observer – WGU North Carolina announces Military Service Scholarships for 2022

DURHAM — As a part of Army Appreciation Month, WGU North Carolina has introduced that it’s providing ten $2,500 Army Service Scholarships for 2022. That is the fourth 12 months that the net nonprofit college has supplied these scholarships to honor members of the army neighborhood in North Carolina.

The Army Service Scholarships can be found to at the moment serving army members, veterans, and their households, and may be utilized to any of the greater than 60 bachelor’s and grasp’s levels supplied by WGU in IT, enterprise, schooling, and healthcare, together with nursing. Scholarships might be awarded primarily based on a candidate’s tutorial document, readiness for on-line examine, present competency, and different issues. The applying deadline is Sept. 30, 2022. For extra info, go to nc.wgu.edu/militaryservice.

Celebrating its fifth anniversary this 12 months, WGU North Carolina is an affiliate of the accredited, nonprofit on-line Western Governors College, which has been named a Army Pleasant Faculty for 12 consecutive years and was named primary within the on-line class for 2022-2023. WGU at the moment has greater than 4,000 college students enrolled in North Carolina, about 19% of whom are affiliated with the army neighborhood.

Designed for working adults, WGU provides an asynchronous, competency-based mannequin that permits college students to entry coursework at a time handy for them. WGU’s tuition is round $4,000 per six-month time period for many undergraduate diploma applications, and college students can speed up at their very own tempo with steering from an assigned mentor.

“As a former Military officer stationed at Fort Bragg for a number of years, I do know firsthand of the proud army custom in North Carolina,” stated Ben Coulter, Ed.D., chancellor of WGU North Carolina. “The Army Service Scholarships and different scholarship choices from WGU will assist these looking for a bachelor’s or grasp’s diploma from an accredited nonprofit college.”

For extra details about WGU North Carolina, go to nc.wgu.edu.