|
| General Articles :: Career Ideas & Resources |
| |
| Penn Foster College Helps Working Moms Get Back to School |
| by Michelle Dempsey |
Scottsdale, AZ, July 15, 2008 - penn foster College today announced it has joined forces with eLearners.com to launch "Project Working Mom 2" to provide working mothers full scholarships. This comes on the heels of the first phase of Project Working Mom, which awarded $2 million in scholarships to some of the more than 50,000 applicants that applied.
Project Working Mom 2 will grant another $2 million in scholarships to working moms, in time for the back-to-school season. The deadline to apply for a scholarship at www.projectworkingmom.com is August 31.
"Penn Foster College has been providing an affordable, accessible alternative to traditional college education for over 30 years," said Richard R. Ferrin, President of Penn Foster College, adding, "this scholarship program is a great opportunity for some working moms to receive a college education at no cost."
Project Working Mom shows how online education can help women overcome the barriers of time, money and confidence to earn their degree. "When we launched the first Project Working Mom campaign, we had no idea that the need and aspiration of working moms to advance their education was so enormous," said Terrence Thomas, EVP Marketing Operations at EducationDynamics. "The sheer volume of the applicants and the heart wrenching essays demonstrated a national imperative to support working moms to better their lives and the lives of their families."
Visitors to www.projectworkingmom.com will also find a comprehensive interactive website with online education resources, profiles of working moms going to school online and a community of women sharing their experiences. As part of Project Working Mom, Penn Foster College is offering full-ride College Scholarships for 20 different associate degree programs in the fields of healthcare, business, and technology. A complete list of Penn Foster College's programs can be found at www.pennfosercollege.edu. To apply for the scholarships, working moms submit a short application and an essay with their life, education and/or career goals, and explain how an online education will allow them to achieve those goals at www.projectworkingmom.com. The recipients will be announced this September.
For more than 117 years, Penn Foster has been providing career-focused training programs in the fields of healthcare, business, technology, automotive technology, and select trades. Penn Foster College (www.pennfostercollege.edu) is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Penn Foster career school (www.pennfoster.edu) and Penn Foster High School (www.pennfosterhighschool.com) are headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania with offices in Montreal, Canada.
The eLearners.com website is one of several high visibility, high-quality prospecting tools offered by EducationDynamics, LLC. Since 1999, eLearners.com has been successfully connecting learners to online education, including online degree and certificate programs, specialized career training, and a variety of online courses. For prospective students, eLearners(r) provides a powerful search engine for users to find thousands of online program offerings, as well as educational evaluation tools and financial aid resources. For colleges and universities, the eLearners.com website offers a low-cost, performance-based method to provide national exposure and increase enrollments in their programs. For more information on eLearners.com, visit http://www.elearners.com/.
EducationDynamics, LLC, a portfolio company of Halyard Capital, is a leading interactive marketing and information services company focused on helping higher education institutions find, enroll and retain students. Home to some of the most visible education websites, including EarnMyDegree.com, eLearners.com, GradSchools.com, and StudyAbroad.com, EducationDynamics is one of the leading providers of qualified leads for colleges and universities. In addition, the company offers a full suite of web-delivered products and services to manage a school's relationship with students across their entire life cycle from inquiry through enrollment to retention. For more information on EducationDynamics, please visit http://www.educationdynamics.com/.
About the author:
http://www.pennfoster.edu
|
|
|
|
|
Facebook
del.icio.us
Digg