The Chipola Foundation will begin accepting applications for the McLendon Extended Scholarship on Monday, March 31, 2025, and the deadline to apply for this scholarship for the 2025-2026 school year is June 12, 2025. 

The McLendon Extended Two-Year Scholarship is for a student who has previously received a McLendon Educational Trust Scholarship at Chipola College and excelled both academically and in leadership activities. Scholarship funds will be toward a student's junior and senior years for tuition and books at Chipola College or another university. 

Chipola Academic Works Website Sign-In Instructions

Current Students- You may sign in using the same username and password you use to access myChipola.

*CHIPOLA ACADEMIC WORKS WEBSITE LINK*: MCLENDON EXTENDED 2+2 SCHOLARSHIP - 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.

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Scholarship Recipient Information

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: Student Email FAQs - Chipola College

Fall 2025 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 college the student will be attending for the purpose of paying toward their tuition and/or books.