USM grows scholarship program for disadvantaged and first-generation students
A Scarborough couple s effort to help a handful of Portland-area students pay for college has grown to an endowed scholarship fund that aims to help 100 Maine students at a time graduate debt-free.
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Elizabeth Muana, originally from South Sudan, came with her mother and two sisters to the U.S. She is a freshman at the University of Southern Maine and a Promise Scholarship recipient.
Derek Davis/Staff Photographer
Elizabeth Muana remembers her reaction last spring when she checked her email and unexpectedly found out she was receiving a scholarship to the University of Southern Maine that would help cover tuition costs and allow her to go to school without taking out any loans.