Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship

Published on: December 09, 2009

In spring 2010, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will award scholarships to help community college students with exceptional promise and demonstrated financial need reach their full potential through education. Each award will fund a portion of educational costs at a four-year institution, including tuition, fees, and living expenses for two to three years of a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar's undergraduate degree.

To be eligible for the program, a candidate must:

Be a current student at an accredited U.S. community college or two-year institution with sophomore status OR a recent graduate (within the last five years),
Have a cumulative college grade point average of 3.50 or better on a 4.0 scale (or the equivalent),
Plan to transfer to a four-year college or university to begin studies in the coming fall,
Be nominated by his or her two-year institution, and
Have unmet financial need

Campus Submission Deadline

The campus deadline for application submission is January 15, 2010.

LSC College Representative
To learn more about the nomination process, contact your campus representative. You can also visit the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Web site or call 1-800-498-6478. The Foundation does not accept applications directly from students.

Lone Star College–CyFair: Esther Robinson
Lone Star College-Kingwood: Debbie Esparza
Lone Star College–Montgomery: Jade Borne
Lone Star College-North Harris: Jack Hernandez
Lone Star College–Tomball: Nancy Kral

Lone Star College System consists of five colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, and LSC-Tomball, six centers, the LSC-University Center, LSC-University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online. With more than 59,000 students in credit classes this fall, LSCS is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and third largest community college system in Texas. To learn more visit LoneStar.edu.
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