RALEIGH, N.C. – Members of State Employees’ CU have voted to renew the $4-million-per-year “People Helping People” SECU Foundation high school and community college scholarship programs.
The high school program provides a $10,000 four-year college scholarship to a graduating senior from each of North Carolina’s traditional public high schools, as well as two charter high schools. It has awarded more than $32 million in scholarships since its 2005 inception, making it one of the biggest scholarship programs in the country.
The scholarship is awarded for study at one of the 16 constituent campuses in the University of North Carolina system. The community college program provides two $5,000 scholarships to each of the 58 North Carolina community colleges.
