YOUR AD HERE »

Colorado Mountain College Summit County awarded $19k by state scholarship initiative

The Snake River between Keystone and Montezuma shows the spring runoff on Friday. To see your photos in print and online send them to share@summitdaily.com.
Bill Linfield / Summit Daily reader |

Summit County and 31 other counties are the beneficiaries of $2.5 million in grant dollars for postsecondary education after the board for the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative recently approved 29 local proposals.

Colorado Mountain College’s two Summit County campuses were awarded more than $19,000 in new scholarship aid. In total, the 11-campus Western Slope community college network accounts for almost $110,000 in awards from the fund.

The Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative was created to increase the attainment of postsecondary degrees and credentials for underserved students in the state. The project addresses this challenge through both accessibility and affordability.



The Colorado Department of Higher Education seeks to reduce the attainment gap — the term to describe the space between Coloradans who traditionally go to college and those from demographic groups who are historically less likely to do so. The Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative is one of the ways the department is fulfilling this charge.

To inquire about forming a scholarship partnership, please contact Shelley Banker at shelleybanker@dhe.state.co.us or 303-974-2673.


Support Local Journalism

Support Local Journalism

As a Summit Daily News reader, you make our work possible.

Summit Daily is embarking on a multiyear project to digitize its archives going back to 1989 and make them available to the public in partnership with the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. The full project is expected to cost about $165,000. All donations made in 2023 will go directly toward this project.

Every contribution, no matter the size, will make a difference.