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Careers Through Culinary Arts Program

Don’t you just love going into a restaurant that boasts of impeccable service? Have you experienced tipping more than the usual amount because you were totally impressed of the food and the level of service? Don’t you wish you’d experience this every time you go into a restaurant?

Actually, the Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), is exerting a lot of effort to help raise the quality of service in restaurants. And how do they do this? Careers through Culinary Program provide opportunities for the underserved youth. The program includes education on culinary arts, internship, and employment.

This non-profit organization offers the biggest culinary scholarship program in all of the United States. Careers through Culinary Arts Program presented a whooping $2,000,000 scholarship fund to student chefs in 2004.

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Things to Note About Online Nursing Degree Programs

If you are thinking about pursuing a degree from one of those online nursing degree programs, you will probably have a lot of questions about exactly what you can expect if you were to sign on the dotted line.

Hopefully, we can shed some light on some of these commonly asked questions for you now.

One of the first questions many people have is whether one can become a Registered Nurse (RN) by pursuing an online degree?

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The College Scholarship Penalty – Don’t Get Bitten

The scholarship penalty is a little known college policy which reduces money available to college students due to scholarship monies they receive.   Scholarships are looked at as a common solution to the college funding problem. Scholarships from organizations such as the DAR, Rotary, Wal-Mart, a local church, the Gates Foundation, or other similar organizations make up only 2% to 3% of the money that is available to help send students to college; but from they attention they receive, you would think the amount available would be much higher. But there is a greater problem with external college scholarships.

External college scholarships are those scholarships which a student acquires by applying to an organization other than the college or university the student attends. Internal scholarships (or merit awards) are those funds awarded directly to a student, typically for academic achievement. Internal scholarships are always good and should be pursued at all times. External scholarships have a penalty which is rarely discussed.   The standard policy of colleges and universities across the United States is to reduce the financial award the school would otherwise give you by the amount of money in outside scholarships the student receives.

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