Scholarships offered for Catholic Native Americans studying nursing

Published: 2006-04-17

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions has given $420,000 to The Catholic University of America in Washington for scholarships for Catholic Native Americans who are studying nursing at the graduate level. The money will be added to previous funds donated by the Washington-based bureau for the Cardinal Terence Cooke/Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Scholarship Fund, an endowed fund that provides tuition scholarships to academically qualified Catholic Native American applicants who belong to a tribe or have a formal association with one. Vincentian Father David M. O'Connell, Catholic University president, said the university shares "the bureau's commitment to providing an excellent university education to deserving Native American students."

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