Transformational Scholarships Program

Preparing teachers for Eastern North Carolina thanks to a generous charitable grant from the Anonymous Trust

Transformational Scholars

The Transformational Scholarships Program is a need-based scholarship program that prepares exceptional high school students from Eastern North Carolina to make a lasting impact in their home communities as highly effective teachers and leaders. Through North Carolina’s No. 1 ranked college of education, Transformational Scholars engage in field experiences, summer work, student teaching and other opportunities in Eastern North Carolina that equip them to return to the region to teach after completing their undergraduate degree.

“The program has opened doors to opportunities I wouldn’t have had otherwise.”

Laura Bostic ’26

Transformational Scholar from Duplin County

76

total number of students who have been Transformational Scholars

15

Transformational Scholars who have graduated since the program began

The Transformational Scholarships Program launched in summer 2021 to provide students from Eastern North Carolina with need-based scholarships thanks to a generous charitable grant from the Anonymous Trust. The eligible counties for Transformational Scholars are the following: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson.

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Andrea Loera Valdez, a senior studying elementary education, is passionate about helping young children connect to the excitement of learning. “Elementary education is a student’s first impression of what school can mean. The way that teachers go about starting students on their path of education — it’s really important,” said Loera Valdez.

Two Transformational Tales, Courtesy of NC State

For Laura Bostic ’26 and Josh Webb ’26, home is eastern North Carolina, family is the Wolfpack and the future is limitless, thanks to the Transformational Scholarships Program at the College of Education.

A group of Transformational Scholars stand together in downtown Raleigh.

‘The Program Has Opened Doors to Opportunities:’ First Transformational Scholars Prepare to Graduate from College of Education

Laura Bostic ’26 always knew that she wanted to make an impact on her Eastern North Carolina community and that she wanted to work with kids. Seeing how much of an impact her own teachers made as she was growing up, she decided to become a teacher and enrolled in the NC State College of Education, where she was accepted into the first cohort of the Transformational Scholarships Program.

“Without the financial support of the Transformational Scholarships Program, I probably would not have been able to attend NC State. Programs like these that recruit teachers and help them pay for college are really important because they show pre-service teachers that someone believes in them.”

Elise Hines ’26

Teacher, G.W. Carver Elementary School in Edgecombe County

About the Anonymous Trust

The Transformational Scholarships Program is supported by a generous charitable grant from the Anonymous Trust. They seek to elevate and empower rural and under-resourced communities in eastern North Carolina through grant-making, resource development, and relationship building.

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