Opportunity

Eyes on the Prize, Hands on the Job

Scholarships enable ambitious students to get the most out of their education and to graduate without massive debt.

For example, Annie Caruso works sixty hours a week in the summer and thirty to forty hours a week during the school year, delivering patient meals at Sacred Heart Medical Center and helping out in the UO archaeology laboratory.

A double major in anthropology and Judaic studies, Annie earned a Dean’s Scholarship and received other financial aid to cover most of her tuition and living expenses. But trips to archaeological digs around the world cost extra, so the former Harrisburg High School valedictorian is at work when she’s not in class or in the field.

“Without scholarships, I would have gone into debt really badly,” she says.