FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 3, 2005
CONTACT: Dan Roland (800) 552-4770
BY: Dan Roland

SLIM awarded more than $50,000 in scholarships in 2004 – EMPORIA, KS

The School of Library and Information Management (SLIM), at Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, awarded eighty-one financial scholarships in calendar year 2004 totaling $53,529. Scholarships ranged from $100 to $1,000 with an average of $660. SLIM awards scholarships for fall, spring, and summer semesters. Forty-two scholarship recipients were students at the home campus in Emporia. The remaining thirty-nine scholarship recipients were students in the school's Distance Education program. Students from six different states received scholarships.

For more information about the various scholarship funds available to SLIM students and about the various people in whose memory these scholarships were founded, visit the SLIM website at http://slim.emporia.edu/studentserv/scholarships.htm.

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