Beginning with the Fall 2024 semester, the Chipola College Foundation will only accept McLendon Educational Trust scholarship applications on our new online scholarship application website, Chipola Academic Works.
For the Spring 2025 semester, the scholarship application deadline was Friday, November 1, 2024. The online scholarship application website is now closed for the Spring 2025 semester.
The McLendon Educational Trust Scholarship is awarded each semester. Prior recipients must complete a new application each semester to be considered for additional funding.
Scholarship Application Instructions
Chipola Academic Works Website Sign-In Instructions For Open Application Periods:
Students will click on the Chipola Academic Works Website Link on this page and then sign in using the instructions below:
Current Students- You may sign in using the same username and password you use to access myChipola.
New/Prospective Students- Please note that you must have applied to Chipola College prior to applying for scholarships on the Chipola Academic Works website. You will receive your Chipola email address and login credentials at that time.
To apply for admission to Chipola College, please visit the Chipola Admissions Office or their webpage https://www.chipola.edu/admissions/
*CHIPOLA ACADEMIC WORKS WEBSITE LINK*: MCLENDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST SCHOLARSHIP (SPRING) - Chipola College Scholarship Opportunities (academicworks.com)
To apply for Foundation scholarships on the Chipola Academic Works website, students must have access to a personal computer or cellphone. Students without a personal computer or cell phone can visit the Chipola library to use one of their computers or visit the Foundation Office to use the computer in our student workstation. If a student would like to use the computer in the student workstation at the Foundation Office, please call us at (850) 718-2404 to reserve a time to use the computer. Students who make a reservation to use the computer, should be on time to allow themselves adequate time to complete the application.
Specific application instructions will be on the Chipola Academic Works website, but students who have questions while completing the applications, may click Question and Answer link below to see our help page for guidance. If a student has a question that is not on this list, Foundation staff will be happy to help. Please email foundation@chipola.edu or call (850) 718-2404 for assistance.
Scholarship Recipient Information
If you submitted an online scholarship application for the Fall 2024 semester:
Chipola Foundation Fall 2024 scholarship offers/contracts were emailed to the recipient's Chipola email addresses on July 23rd and 24th. Chipola Foundation Scholarships for the Fall 2024 semester had to be accepted and thank you notes received back to the Chipola Foundation via email by August 7th.
If you submitted an online scholarship application for the Spring 2025 semester:
Students who were selected to receive a scholarship award were emailed an official scholarship award offer to their Chipola email address. To accept an offered scholarship award, students must click the weblink in the scholarship offer email they receive in their Chipola email inbox and must then read and agree to the terms of their scholarship offer. For any student who does not accept the scholarship award by the acceptance deadline mentioned in the offer email, the Foundation will consider the scholarship declined and the student will not receive the scholarship funds. If you have difficulty accessing your Chipola email account, please click the following weblink: Student Email FAQs - Chipola College
Scholarship award offer emails were sent in late November/early December, and the email included the scholarship acceptance deadline. After accepting the scholarship, students will be asked to complete an online post-acceptance form where they will write a thank you letter to the donor of their scholarship. Once they have accepted the scholarship offer and completed the post-acceptance form, their scholarship funds will be made available to the Chipola Business Office for the purpose of paying toward their tuition and/or books.