Last month, Texas Tech University awarded the first ever chess scholarship. In fact, they awarded 3 scholarships to 3 girls from the Susan Polgar National Open Championship for Girls. They are working on giving more scholarships at the Susan Polgar World Open Championship for Girls in June in Las Vegas (http://www.uschess.org/tla/susanpolgarworldchampforgirls.pdf).
University of Texas in Brownsville is working on the same thing. Of course University of Texas in Dallas is already one of the biggest supporter of chess.
Do you know of any other University that may be interested in awarding Chess Scholarships? If you do, please let me know. I will post them here for everyone.
My goal is to get more Colleges and Universities to recognize Chess and support our game.
Thank you!
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org
www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com
www.SusanPolgar.com
Colleges offering chess scholarships are listed at the USCF website. Here is the link
http://www.uschess.org/scholastic/scholarship.php