University to offer ride for kids of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
PHILADELPHIA Widener (WYD'-nur) University, a former military college, says it will offer four full scholarships a year to children who have had a parent killed in action in Iraq or Afghanistan. The program, slated to start in the fall, will provide 25-thousand dollars a year to each recipient. The students will be eligible to receive aid for up to eight semesters, or until they complete the undergraduate program.
School officials say they don't expect the offer to have a great impact for perhaps another decade because many of the children of those killed in action are now very young.
A committee led by a retired Army general who is an alumnus and trustee, will review applications and oversee the program.
Widener University is in suburban Philadelphia.
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