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Since 1995, Southwestern Electric Cooperative’s Power For Progress Scholarship Program has provided more than $300,000 in academic assistance to students pursuing a college degree or vocational school certificate. The tradition continues this year with Southwestern’s pledge to award 12 $1,200 Southwestern Electric Scholarships, one $1,200 Alan G. Libbra Memorial Scholarship and one $1,200 Richard Gusewelle Memorial Scholarship to students in 2025. 

Scholarship recipients can apply the funding to tuition at any accredited university, college or technical school in the U.S.

Scholarship applications may be downloaded using the links below. You'll find separate applications for high school seniors graduating in 2025 and students who graduated from high school in previous years. The completed application and supplemental materials — including cover letter, academic transcripts and attendance records — must be delivered to Southwestern Electric’s headquarters (525 U.S. Route 40 in Greenville), in a single envelope, postmarked by Friday, March 14, 2025.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

  1. The applicant (or the applicant’s parent/legal guardian) must be an active member of Southwestern Electric Cooperative. Southwestern Electric directors, employees, and their immediate families are not eligible.
  2. The applicant must meet all academic requirements for admission to an accredited university, college or technical school, and be admitted to that institution as a full-time student in the fall of 2025.
  3. The entire application must be completed in full, and received with the appropriate supplementary materials, in advance of the application deadline, March 14, 2025.

CLICK HERE to download the 2025 High School Graduate application.

CLICK HERE to download the 2025 Post High School Graduate application.

You may also request an application by calling Susan File at (800) 637-8667. 

    For more information on the Power for Progress Scholarship Program, please contact Susan File at susan.file@sweci.com or (800) 637-8667, ext. 5924.

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    Based in Greenville, Ill., Southwestern Electric is a not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative serving 24,745 residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial members in 11 counties along the I-70 corridor between St. Louis, Mo., and Effingham, Ill.

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    You can reach us at (800) 637-8667. We respond to outage calls around the clock. Our office hours are Mon - Fri., 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

    You're welcome to visit our office at:

    525 US Route 40
    Greenville, IL 62246

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