The IVC Foundation: situation normal, all f*cked up

     A while back, the IVC Foundation—i.e., Executive Foundation Dir. Richard Morley—informed financial aid that the Foundation would be awarding six $1,000 scholarships, as they had in past years, from the “Learning Excellence” Scholarship.
     Oh good.
     The scholarship was posted on Stars and a number of students applied. A scholarship committee was formed to review and score all the applications. Students were chosen to receive the scholarships.

     Excellent!
     Um, one thing though: evidently, Herr Morley failed to confirm the funding for the scholarship, i.e., whether it would be renewed by the donor.
     Nope. (He made this mistake last year with a number of scholarships.)
     And so, after the selections were made and students chosen, go-to faculty Kurt Meyer and Kay Ryals were notified by Morley that the scholarships would not be awarded after all.
     There were sparks, gnashing of teeth—dark, dark mutterings.
     Before Mr. Morley came on board a couple of years ago, all the funding was confirmed before the scholarships were announced.
     No longer, evidently.

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     Gosh, what's it like for a student to enter IVC's wacky Scholarship World?
     I went to the IVC website, clicked on “Student Services,” then clicked on “Financial Aid,” then clicked on “IVC Scholarship Program.” That brought me to a page entitled,

“Irvine Valley College Scholarship Program

Instructions for 2012 - 2013 Application

DEADLINE: February 22, 2013.”

     Underneath that, this appeared:

     I clicked on the “here” link. Nothing happened.
     I tried another browser. Still nothing.
     SNAFU.

From the 2012 IVC "Report to the Community" (aka “Advancing Student Success”),  p. 10