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Beaver Island school announces a December 1996 financial-aid workshop for college-bound families

Also 1996 Beaver Island financial aid workshop · Project ScholarSCAM financial aid guidance 1996

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TypeEvent
Date1996-12-03
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
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1996-12-03
Kind
Education
Where
Beaver Island
Carried out by
Beaver Island Community School
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Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The December 1996 Beaver Beacon announced a December 3 financial-aid workshop for parents of college and college-bound students. It offered forms and help with applications and warned families about scholarship-search fraud through the Federal Trade Commission’s Project Scholar$cam.

Evidence limits

This is an announcement and consumer-education notice; it does not establish workshop attendance, individual aid awards, or a specific fraud investigation on Beaver Island.

Sources

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Sources

  1. Announces a December 3 workshop with free financial-aid forms and help for parents and college-bound students, discusses scholarship-search fraud, and summarizes the FTC’s Project Scholar$cam warning. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1996-12_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the financial-aid workshop and fraud-prevention notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1996-12_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island school announces a December 1996 financial-aid workshop for college-bound families”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-financial-aid-workshop-1996/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1996, “Counselor’s Corner” and “Project Scholar$cam.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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