Juan Solano, III Endowed Fund: Creating Opportunities for Excellence in Education

Purpose:
As a single parent, paying for school can be difficult. The Juan Solano, III Endowed Scholarship: Creating Opportunities for Excellence in Education has been established to ease the burden many single parents face when trying to balance work, school, paying the bills, and spending time with their family.

Juan Solano III, his mother Janet Mills, and his daughter Jennifer O’Connor completed their education as single parents. We hope that in some small way that this scholarship will assist others that find themselves in a similar situation of trying to improve their future through education while seeing to the needs of their families.

Criteria:
· Be meeting Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements and cannot be in default or owe any refund/repayment of federal, state or institutional aid.
· Complete the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships scholarship application
· Have a declared major within the College of Business at Metropolitan State University of Denver
· Have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5
· Be a junior or senior at the time of the award.

There is a preference for the recipient to be a single parent.
There will be special consideration for students with high financial need.