05/04/11 gm/kkh

NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: The Scholarship Awards Ceremony is focused on the College of Business and Leaderhship rather than the community at large, but we welcome reporters and photographers if you wish to cover it as a news event.

HAYS, Kan. -- More than 100 scholarships will be awarded at Fort Hays State University's College of Business and Leadership annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, in the Memorial Union's Fort Hays Ballroom on the FHSU Campus.

The 117 scholarships total approximately $106,250. Five full-time graduate assistantships and 15 full-time graduate teaching assistantships will also be awarded to students with stipends totaling $140,000.

Donors of scholarships and students and their parents are invited to attend.