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The Career Stimulus Package Scholarship/Internship Awards

Purpose: A select group of online colleges and universities and businesses have teamed with eLearners.com to support this Career Stimulus Package scholarship/internship program. The schools have committed to providing 100 full-tuition scholarships totaling close to $4 million dollars to help working adults further their education and obtain their degrees.  And, the businesses have committed to providing internships as described herein.

You can apply to one of the scholarship sponsors for a Career Stimulus Package scholarship/internship.  Each scholarship sponsor will designate its own scholarship selection committee to select scholarship award recipients and eLearners.com will arrange one-week internship opportunities for scholarship award recipients.


Scholarship Sponsors: The following colleges and universities are sponsoring Career Stimulus Package:


Eligibility Requirements: Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and US Territories. Void outside the 50 United States, and where prohibited or restricted by law. To be eligible, entrant must be at least eighteen (18) years of age or older as of the date of entry. Employees of Sponsor, their immediate family members and those living in the same household, and Sponsor affiliates, subsidiaries, parent and related companies, officers, directors, contractors and agents (collectively, the "Promotion Parties") are not eligible. All federal, state and local rules and regulations apply.

When you enter, you may be asked to consent to receive promotional e-mails and reminders for promotions and information about online education. Consenting to receive such e-mails is optional and does not have to be agreed to in order to be eligible to enter  and does not improve your chances of winning.

Career Stimulus Package scholarships/internships are for individuals who are interested in enrolling in an accredited online degree program. Applicants must meet the individual eligibility requirements of the sponsoring schools awarding scholarships. Employees (and family members) of scholarship/internship sponsors or eLearners.com and their respective affiliates are not eligible to participate. All application materials submitted become the property of eLearners.com. One application per person.


Application Process: To apply for a Career Stimulus Package scholarship/internship program, simply complete the online application, located at www.careerstimulus.com where you will be asked to fill in the following:

  • Name
  • Age
  • Current Work Status
  • Email
  • Current Address and Phone Number
  • An essay of 1500 words or less, describing why getting your degree is important to you. Tell us about (a) your life, education, and/or career goal(s), (b) how education will ultimately enable you to achieve those goal(s), and (c) why online education is the right choice for you.

We strongly encourage you to discuss any personal challenges or obstacles you have had to overcome in your pursuit of getting your degree.
 

Selection Process: Applications will be reviewed by Career Stimulus Package scholarship committees of each of the online schools you designate in your scholarship application. The scholarship winners will be selected based on the strength of the application and written essay as determined by each designated scholarship committee. Scholarship sponsoring schools and scholarship recipients are responsible for the details of the delivery and acceptance of the scholarship award including but not limited to any applicable tax obligations with respect to the award.


Deadline: Applications must be received online by Saturday, October 31, 2009 (5:00 P.M. ET).


Award: Scholarship award recipients will be selected on or before November 15, 2009 and will be notified shortly thereafter by the school awarding the scholarship. Scholarship award recipients will also be posted online at www.careerstimuluspackage.com in December 2009/January 2010.

The award recipient may be required to submit documentation (such as an IRS form W-9) to receive payment. Except where prohibited by law, the award recipient consents to the use of recipient’s name and application in any manner by eLearners.com without further compensation. The details of the terms and conditions of accepting a scholarship award are found at www.careerstimuluspackage.com and will be set forth in an award agreement and affidavit/release to be signed by award recipients.


Choice/Opt-out: Scholarship applicants acknowledge that a representative from a scholarship sponsoring school may contact them about enrollment opportunities. eLearners.com, EducationDynamics, and its subsidiary companies reserve the right to contact applicants for the Career Stimulus Package scholarship/internship for future communication and offers from eLearners.com.  Users of our site who no longer wish to receive any communication from eLearners.com may unsubscribe and opt out at the following address: http://www.elearners.com/optout/. If users are receiving newsletter communications, users can opt out by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the newsletter.
 

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party.

Contact Us: If you have questions, please contact us at csp [at] elearners [dot] com.

Please note: Each scholarship sponsoring school is responsible for administering each scholarship that it awards.  Each internship company is responsible for the internship experience.  eLearners.com and EducationDynamics, LLC are not responsible for the awarding of the scholarships.