GREENSBORO, N.C. — Seven historically Baptist colleges and universities in North Carolina will offer undergraduate tuition scholarships for children of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship global missions field personnel.
The schools are Campbell University in Buies Creek, Chowan University in Murfreesboro, Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, Meredith College in Raleigh, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem and Wingate University in Wingate.
Each school will offer an eight-semester scholarship for full-time study to field personnel dependents who meet the school's admission standards. Room, board and other costs will be funded through one of the Fellowship's endowments. The Fellowship is working to increase the existing $870,000 endowment to $2.5 million in order to provide for these expenses.
The schools formalized their commitment Nov. 13, when leaders from the Fellowship and the schools signed a memorandum of understanding at the CBF of North Carolina fall meeting in Greensboro.