The Asian Coalition of City College of San Francisco, now in its twenty-fifth year of offering scholarships will be awarding ten (11) scholarships of $500.00 each. In addition, a Grand Scholarship (1) of $1,000 will also be awarded to deserving students of Asian and Asian Pacific Islander ancestry. Five of the scholarships come directly from the Asian Coalition. Four are from gracious repeat donors. The other two are offered by a new donor for this year. Additional donor scholarships may become available in varying amounts. Interested students must be currently enrolled in either credit or non-credit courses at any of the campuses of City College of San Francisco. International students are encouraged to apply.

Four of the five scholarships established by Asian Coalition, honor the memory of John Yehall Chin who served as one of the members of the first Board of Trustees in the San Francisco Community College District. The fifth scholarship honors the memory of Victor Chow, a former faculty member of the Biology Department at the Ocean Campus and co-founder of Asian Coalition.

Of the four additional repeat donor scholarships, two are individual memorial scholarships and two are from a non-profit organization. The memorial scholarships honor Mr. T. F. Tsao in its fitth consecutive year. The memorial scholarships honor Ms. Jessie Wong in its third year. The California Transplant Donor Network (www.ctdn.org), now in its fourth year of offer is a non-profit organization that saves and improves lives by facilitating organ and tissue donation for transplantation. This organization is reaching out to the Asian community, to educate and promote the importance of organ donation donated a scholarship. Also, now in its fourth consecutive year the two scholarships (one $500 and one $1000) are being offered by the Square and Circle Service Club, a S.F. Chinatown community-based women’s fund raising organization that has been donating scholarships to C.C.S.F. students for the past 52 years.

The new donor of this year, Ms. Winnie Yiu, a faculty member in Financial Aid Office and former Asian Coalition treasurer, contributed two scholarships bringing the total of twelve (12) scholarships for this year.

The purpose of each scholarship is to acknowledge the struggles and sacrifices Asian and Asian Pacific Islander students encounter in pursuing their educational goals and to provide encouragement for their endeavors. Selection criteria include academic and career goals, financial need, school/community service, potential leadership skills, and teacher/counselor recommendations.

Applications are available through the Scholarship Office (L366) at the Ocean campus and the counseling office at each campus. It can also be downloaded from the Asian Coalition website at: http://www.ccsf.edu/ac.

Completed applications including the teacher/counselor recommendations (two required; at least one must be from a teacher) must be submitted (in triplicate) to Dr. John Wilde, Scholarship Committee Co-chairperson, City College of San Francisco, 50 Phelan Avenue, Rosenberg 323, San Francisco, CA 94112 and received by 4:00 p.m., Friday, February 29, 2008. The awards will be presented at the Asian Coalition Dinner that will be held on April 25, 2008.

For further information, please contact the scholarship co-chairs:

Monika Liu at 452-5730 or by email: mliu@ccsf.edu

Dr. John Wilde at 452-5484 or by email: jwilde@ccsf.edu

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Asian Coalition (AC) is a voluntary membership organization comprised of faculty, classified staff, administrators, trustees, students and community members at City College of San Francisco (CCSF).