This scholarship provides tuition and fee assistance for one calendar year, including summer term, to children of displaced energy workers in Illinois. It supports undergraduate and graduate students deterred from attending or completing education due to a parent's layoff from retiring power plants or closing coal mines. Applicants must submit proof of job loss and apply by October 1st for full-year funding.
Eligible applicants are children, including adopted and stepchildren, of displaced energy workers laid off from fossil fuel power plants or coal mines in Illinois. Applicants must provide proof of the parent's job loss occurring on or after September 15, 2016.
