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 Summer 2025 semester, the McLendon Educational Trust scholarship application deadline was Thursday, March 13, 2025.
For the Fall 2025 semester, the Chipola Foundation will begin accepting McLendon Educational Trust scholarship applications on Monday, March 31, 2025 and the deadline is Thursday, June 12, 2025.
The McLendon Educational Trust Scholarship is awarded each semester. Prior recipients must complete a new application each semester to be considered for additional funding. Students must meet the following requirements to qualify for the McLendon Educational Trust Scholarship:
- Applicants must be a high school graduate with a 2.0 or better final grade point average or have earned a GED in order to apply.
- Students that have previously been enrolled in college must also have both a college cumulative and semester grade point average of 2.0 or better at time of application.
- Applicants' household income must be $120,000 or less or if household income is greater than $120,000, applicants must have extenuating circumstances that demonstrate financial need such as loss of job, serious illness, divorce, death, etc. If extenuating circumstances exist, they must be detailed in the application.
- Application requires a copy of pages 1 and 2 of the IRS Form 1040 from of the previous year's tax return showing proof of income for everyone in the household for the previous year ending December 31.
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 and will use them to sign in to the online scholarship system. Note: Students do not have to be admitted into Chipola College to apply for scholarships, but they must be admitted to receive scholarships. 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*: Speciality Opportunities - Chipola College Scholarship Opportunities
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.
Scholarships through the Chipola College Foundation are supported by private donations. Donors set the scholarship criteria and scholarship deadlines.
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Scholarship Recipient Information
If you submitted an online scholarship application for the Summer 2025 semester:
Students who are selected to receive a scholarship award will be 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 for guidance: Student Email FAQs - Chipola College
Summer 2025 McLendon Educational Trust scholarship award offer emails will not be sent by the Foundation to students’ Chipola email inbox until early-mid April. 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.
If you submitted an online scholarship application for the Fall 2025 semester:
Students who are selected to receive a scholarship award will be 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 for guidance: Student Email FAQs - Chipola College
Fall 2025 McLendon Educational Trust scholarship award offer emails will not be sent by the Foundation to students’ Chipola email inbox until mid-late July. 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.