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Eighteen of the 21 Cox Scholars for 2005
Remember the long hours you worked putting yourself through college? With the costs of a higher education ever on the rise, today’s working students know the feeling, too.
But 21 hardworking IUB and IUPUI students have found a helping hand. Each has received a Jesse H. and Beulah Chanley Cox Scholarship worth between $8,000 and $12,000 per year.
The scholarship covers between 50 and 75 percent of the yearly cost of attendance for Indiana residents enrolled at IUB or IUPUI. Such costs can include tuition, fees, room and board, books, classroom supplies, miscellaneous expenses, and transportation.
Students become eligible to apply in their sophomore year, and the scholarship remains in effect for up to three years. In the future, the scholarship will also become available to freshmen.
Jesse Cox put himself through school with lots of hard work and determination. After many years as a successful businessman, he took stock of his journey and decided to ease the path for students whose present circumstances parallel the ones he encountered as a young man. Last year, he set up the Cox Scholarship program.
“In my youth, an education was necessary to get a job that would pay anything,” Jesse says. “It’s true now as much as then. We must always strive to improve education.”
It’s a working relationship: Working students with the determination to achieve a higher education. And Jesse Cox, who has been there, providing a means for advancement to those who help themselves.
—Cary Boyce
Visit the Cox Scholars website at coxscholars.indiana.edu.