Academic Calendar 2011-2012 - Chesapeake College

stuDent Financial assistanceSummer 2011Pell Grant Awardbased on 7 creditsenrollment $138850% of firstscheduled award150% of first scheduledPell Grant AwardTwo Pell Grants in One Award Year – Second StudentAcademic Year Progression Example:Fall 2010Three quarters-timePell Grant Award: $20819 credits earnedSpring 2011Full-timePell Grant Award: $277514 credits earnedMaryland State Aid ProgramsApplication Forms Required:Free Application for Federal Student AidDeadline Date: March 1stState Scholarships and GrantsThe State of Maryland’s Office of Student Financial Assistanceoffers a varety of scholarshps and grants to ts resdents who attendMaryland colleges and unverstes. Many of these programs,such as the Guaranteed Access Grant, Educatonal AssstanceGrant, and Senatoral Scholarshps, requre the Free Applcatonfor Federal Student Ad Form. Applcatons must be processedbefore March 1st to be consdered for state ad. A separate applcationmay be required. Contact the Office of Student FinancialAssstance at 1-800-974-0203, for more nformaton or access therWebste at www.mhec.state.md.us.Summer 2011Pell Grant Award: $2082based on 9 creditsenrollment125% of first scheduledPell Grant AwardMaryland Part-timeThs state scholarshp program s awarded by Chesapeake College.Students must be enrolled n sx to 11 credts, a Marylandresdent and Federal Pell Grant elgble. All funds are awardedfirst-come, first-served. Students should complete the Free Applcatonfor Federal Student Ad by our prorty deadlne date ofMay 1st to be gven consderaton.Even though the student dd not earn 29 credts at the end offall and sprng semesters, the student has at least one academccredt progressng towards the second academc year.15. Academc progresson wll NOT nclude credts fromAdvanced Placement, CLEP, Internatonal Baccalaureateprograms, Lfe Experence, testng out or othercompetency measures. All credts must be earneddurng the award year.Ths program s currently under Congressonal revewand could become elmnated due to budget reductons.Should that happen, all references to ths program wllbecome obsolete.Edward T. Conroy ScholarshipThs state scholarshp program s awarded by Chesapeake College.Students must complete the applcaton and provde allsupportng documentaton by our prorty deadlne date of May1st. Edward T. Conroy Memoral Scholarshp Program provdesfinancial aid to:• Sons and daughters of members of the Unted States armedforces who ded as a result of mltary servce orwho suffered a servce connected 100 percent permanentdsablty as a result of mltary servce;• A veteran who suffers a servce connected dsabltyof 25 percent or greater as a result of mltary servce andhas exhausted or s no longer elgble for federal veterans’educational benefits;• POW/MIA's of the Vietnam Conflict and their sons anddaughters;• Sons and daughters and survvng spouses (who have notremarred) of vctms of the September 11, 2001 terrorstattacks who ded as a result of the attacks on the WorldTrade Center n New York Cty, the attack on the Pentagonn Vrgna, or the crash of Unted Arlnes Flght #93 nPennsylvana;• Sons, daughters and survvng spouses (who have notremarred) of State or local publc safety employees orvolunteers who ded n the lne of duty or who sustanedan njury n the lne of duty that rendered the publcsafety employee or volunteer 100 percent dsabled.20