Tvhs Scholarship At Una Doubles Its Impact For Students

Feb. 09, 2011

Michelle Eubanks, UNA, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033

FLORENCE, Ala. - Local high school students interested in attending the University of North Alabama will have increased scholarship opportunities after the Tennessee Valley Historical Society recently donated funds to the Department of History and Political Science, increasing its scholarship endowment to $25,000. Dr. Jeffrey Bibbee, assistant professor of history, said the TVHS donation will allow the department to participate in the Lion Match program with the UNA Foundation. The program will match the scholarship's award amount, doubling the scholarship's impact on students. Scholarships will be awarded to high school students who participate in the TVSH Scholarship Competition Feb. 25 in the Guillot University Center banquet halls. Students will compete for the scholarships by completing a written exam, which is an objective, multiple-choice test on U.S. and world history. "This donation will be for high school students to use at UNA," Bibbee said. "Over time, we will be able to raise the value of our scholarships and help to secure our scholarship program for many, many more years to come." For more information, contact the Department of History and Political Science at 256-765-4306.

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The University of North Alabama is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The University of North Alabama is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: una.edu and una.edu/unaworks/.