NSUAnswers.com tuition waivers awarded

NSU awarded three $2,500 tuition waivers this fall as part of its NSUAnswers.com campaign. One waiver was awarded to an incoming freshman, Ashley Gilliam, and another to a returning student, Danica Lee. Megan Slayton, a student who transfered to NSU in Spring 2009, was given the third waiver.

Slayton arrived at Northeastern after attending a year at the University of Oklahoma then completing her Associate's degree at Tulsa Community College.

I wanted to get a degree in Elementary Education and I knew that NSU was the best and most reputable for their education program, Slayton said. I have taken classes at NSU since spring of 2009 and I absolutely love it! I intend on graduating in the spring semester of 2011.

Slayton is a graduate of Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa. The youngest of six children, she is paying for her education on her own, making her waiver even more significant.

I am really excited about winning the scholarship and I am really honored, Slayton said. I have never won anything until now and I think that this was an awesome thing to win. It will help further my education greatlyI will be able to take more classes to reach my graduation point faster. I would like to thank NSU for this great reward and I feel truly blessed.

Danica Lee is a sophomore non-traditional student from Checotah. Lee has a 1-year-old son and is a Visual Communication major. She was surprised to win the scholarship, but said it was much-needed and appreciated.

I never win anything, Lee said. I was just thinking about how I was going to pay for the rest of school and then I got a call and they said I won this tuition waiver.

Ashley Gilliam is an incoming freshman from Porter who was named Porter Peach Queen in 2008. She plans to major in Biology and become a veterinary technician.

I feel very lucky and privileged, she said. The scholarship made college more affordable.

NSUAnswers was a recruitment campaign in which Northeastern offered answers to any college questioncampus life, university procedures, scholarship application, aptitude testing, etc.through NSUAnswers.com. T-shirts and iPods were given away in addition to the waivers.

Winners were randomly selected from current NSU students and incoming students who submitted a question to NSUAnswers.com.

11/3/2009

Published: 2009-11-03 00:00:00