Newcombe Scholarship Programs
The Foundation Mrs. Newcombe created continues and extends her interest in scholarships but does not make grants directly to individual students. Colleges and universities receive grants from the Foundation for scholarship aid to designated groups of students. Each academic institution is responsible for selection of recipients and scholarship administration according to the Foundation's guidelines. Campus committees of counselors to students and financial aid officers review applications, award scholarships and report to the Foundation. The Foundation's staff arranges conferences annually with program coordinators to facilitate administration and to encourage institutional commitment to the scholarship program. Much of the success of these Newcombe Scholarships has been due to the impressive dedication of program administrators.
Newcombe Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students at Presbyterian Colleges
Since 1981, the Foundation has provided Newcombe Scholarships for students at selected institutions of higher education that are related to the Presbyterian Church (USA). The colleges chosen to receive Newcombe Scholarship grants in this program serve economically disadvantaged populations and in most cases have small endowments and limited scholarship funds. While 19 Presbyterian-related colleges have participated in this program over the past 26 years, the Foundation's grants in 2006 went to just seven institutions with impressive records of matching the Foundation's grants, all long-time recipients of Newcombe funds.
- F. C., Queens, NY"If it wasn't for your support of my dreams and activities they might have stayed just that; dreams. With the money that you have provided me you have taken an active role in my future. Thank you for seeing the promise in students such as myself."
2006 Foundation grants for Newcombe Scholarships at Presbyterian Colleges totaled $200,000. All were in the form of ambitious challenges to raise matching funds from other donors to add to existing Newcombe Endowed Scholarship Funds. In 2006 grants were awarded to:
- Jamestown College
- www.jc.edu
- North Dakota
- Johnson C. Smith Seminary
- www.pcusa.org/seminaries/seminaries/johnson-smith.htm
- Georgia
- Maryville College
- www.maryvillecollege.edu
- Tennessee
- Rocky Mountain College
- www.rocky.edu
- Montana
- Tusculum College
- www.tusculum.edu
- Tennessee
- Warren Wilson College
- www.warren-wilson.edu
- North Carolina
- Waynesburg College
- www.waynesburg.edu
- Pennsylvania
These 2006 Newcombe grants are expected to raise a total of $410,000 in matching funds to enlarge existing scholarship endowments. The 16 Newcombe Endowed Scholarship Funds at Presbyterian institutions were valued at $4 million by June 2007. They have provided $1.7 million in Newcombe Scholarship awards. In the last 26 years, this program received $7.7 million in Newcombe grants, which furnished 6,119 Newcombe Scholarships. Colleges and Universities: click here for application information.