The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation has announced scholarships totaling over $9.2 million to more than twenty-five hundred children of Marines and Navy corpsmen for the 2021-22 academic year.

According to the foundation, the recipients of the financial need-based scholarship reflect the diversity of the United States Marine Corps and are top-tier scholars with a 90 percent overall graduation rate, well above the national average. In addition, 40 percent of the recipients are first-generation college students and 45 percent plan to pursue degrees in STEM fields. The foundation has awarded nearly forty thousand scholarships since 1962.

The foundation also announced the appointment of Ted Probert as its president and CEO. Probert, who joined the foundation in 2018 as executive vice president of development, served in the Marine Corps Reserves for twenty-one years before retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2014.

"The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is stronger today than at any time in its nearly sixty-year history" said board chair General Robert B. Neller (ret.), who served as the thirty-seventh commandant of the Marine Corps. "Ted Probert has a strong proven track record of tirelessly working to accomplish the Scholarship Foundation's mission of helping the children of Marines and Navy corpsmen who serve with Marines to get advanced education and training. We are excited and confident that his passion for the Scholarship Foundation, leadership, vision, and experience will allow the Scholarship Foundation to continue to grow and have an even greater impact for the Marine and Navy families we serve."

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