List of Scholarships

The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education (VFCCE) and its exciting Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship Program is now recruiting first-year community college students for its scholarship recipients. The goal of this scholarship is to increase access to higher education.

Each recipient will be given up to $1,000 for tuition and fees ($500 for fall 2009 and $500 for spring 2010). This unique opportunity will be available at all 23 community colleges - one scholarship at each college and/or each campus - for students who start in fall 2009.

This scholarship program will create a continuous group of scholarship recipients who in each successive year become mentors to a new class of scholarship recipients - providing a legacy for years to come of community college graduates extending opportunity to future students.

Criteria for Award

The purpose of the Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship Program is to increase access to higher education and to develop student leadership potential. The following criteria will be used to award the scholarships:

• Commonwealth Legacy Scholars will be students attending college for the first time at a Virginia community college.
• Selections will be based on merit.
• Scholars will demonstrate academic excellence during high school and should have a 3.5 GPA or higher.
• Scholars will demonstrate a willingness to promote community college education and the Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship Program.
• Scholars will demonstrate a willingness to mentor future scholars.
• Scholars will demonstrate a commitment to developing leadership potential.
• Students must be full-time, associate degree-seeking students with plans to graduate from a Virginia community college.