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Newcombe Foundation: $18,000 in Scholarshipsfor Adult Women at Neumann

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation has awarded a grant of $18,000 to Neumann to support scholarships for adult women students. Of the total, $8,000 will be used for direct aid during the 2007-08 academic year. The remaining $10,000 will be added to the Neumann College Newcombe Endowed Scholarship Fund, together with $10,000 in matching money from other donations to the College.

The funding will be awarded during 2007-08, on the basis of need, to women students 25 years of age or older, who are enrolled full-time or part-time in baccalaureate degree, second bachelors and post-baccalaureate certificate programs. To be eligible, a student must have completed half of the credits required for her degree.

Since 1985, the Newcombe Foundation has granted $274,000 to Neumann to assist mature women students.

The Foundation scholarship program assists universities and four-year colleges in New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.  Newcombe guidelines stipulate that institutions selected for the program “enroll a substantial number of mature women students and provide exemplary supportive academic and personal counseling services for them.”

Neumann College, which has served adults in the Delaware Valley since 1976, enrolls more than 900 adult students in degree completion, certificate, master’s degree and doctoral programs. More than 60 percent of these adult students are women.

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation has awarded more than $12.3 million since 1981 to aid women who are close to realizing their academic goals and beginning new careers.

8/13/07