Effective spring semester, which begins in January 2016, the Yellow Ribbon Book Scholarship will award a $100 subsidy to up to 25 veterans pursuing degrees or certificates at Daytona State.
“There are times when Post 911 GI Bill and other benefit resources are not quite enough to carry a veteran through to completion,” said Foundation Executive Director Kay Burniston, “ and this scholarship provides another stepping stone that can help them move forward.”
To be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must have been honorably discharged from military service. They also must have exhausted all their veterans educational benefits or be ineligible for benefits that provide a stipend for books (Chapter 30 and Chapter 1606). Applicants also must have a minimum 2.0 cumulative grade point average.
The scholarship application period for Spring 2016 Semester is Oct. 1 through Dec. 1. The application can be found at www.daytonastate.edu/scholarships. Completed applications will match students with all scholarships for which they may be eligible.
More than 1,300 veterans were enrolled at Daytona State last year. In May, U.S. News and World Report’s listing of America’s Best Online Bachelor’s Programs for Military Veterans ranked Daytona State No. 2 among over 700 colleges and universities across the nation.
Adding to the DSC appeal, the college in 2014 joined an elite list of colleges and universities designated as Military Friendly Schools by the veteran-owned company Victory Media, which recognizes colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s service members and veterans as students.
Victory Media calls its list America’s most stringent and transparent inventory of schools catering to veterans, grading the institutions on nine criteria, including military support on campus, academic credibility and the portion of military students enrolled. Those criteria are assessed through a survey the company makes available to all of the nation’s 12,000 VA-approved colleges, of which 15 to 20 percent earn the military friendly designation.
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