COVID-19

Given the title of this blog, the dispiriting post I wrote two weeks ago would never have worked. The piece was long and fraught with critique about what the world is doing...

By Teresa Steinkamp, Advising Director The Scholarship Foundation began a return to in-person advising in January and is announcing an updated set of guidance for in-person advising, beginning March 7, 2022. Staff...

By Teresa Steinkamp, Advising Director Beginning January 2022, The Scholarship Foundation hopes and plans to return to in-person advising. We are eager to meet with, and support, students in the class of...

We need to be paying attention, at The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis and everywhere else that inequity is a threat and democracy is endangered. And I don’t think it hyperbole to...

Throughout Missouri, the COVID-19 Delta variant is spreading rapidly. In June, the Foundation issued an alert about colleges’ changing policies on masking and a reminder about vaccination. With the swift spread in...

Journalist Sylvester Brown, Jr. received the essay written by Scholarship Foundation Campus Policy Fellows and wanted to meet with them right away. Brown began the discussion with Anne Marie, Jessika, Kennedi, and...

Across Missouri, and around the country, colleges are announcing COVID-19 vaccination policies for students and faculty. In May, the Foundation issued the COVID-19 Vaccination Alert, encouraging students to research and decide about...

When Scholarship Foundation offices closed to the public 14 months ago, we expected a return to normal in a matter of months. After several regional and international waves of affliction and death...

Many colleges are now announcing decisions to require COVID-19 vaccination for students and staff for the 2021-22 school year. As colleges announce these decisions, The Scholarship Foundation encourages students to seek vaccination...

Brace yourself for a non-partisan and plainly stated call to action. It matters not what party you support or the political persuasion of the debtors in question. The federal student loan programs...

This is a reminder that dawn comes even when we have no reason to believe that it will. This morning, I was awake at 3:00 A.M. The house was dark and the...

This year, unlike any other, students need to have a Plan B, C, and even D for the fall semester.  Conditions are changing rapidly and that will continue in the days and...