Local Student, Jose Jacinto, Awarded Scholarship to Blackburn College

2012 May 21

Jose Jacinto, son of Lorin Smith, from Wood River, was awarded the Trustee Scholarship from Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL. A Education major, Jacinto has been accepted to Blackburn College for the 2012-13 academic year.

Founded in 1837, Blackburn College is a four-year, Presbyterian-related, co-educational liberal arts college located between Springfield, IL and St. Louis, MO. The College is one of just seven Work Colleges in the nation, and the only one with a student-managed Work Program. Blackburn combines a rigorous academic program with 11 NCAA Division III athletic teams, more than 30 campus clubs and student organizations, and a beautiful small-town campus. Blackburn's tuition is the lowest of all private, four-year residential colleges in Illinois and among the lowest in the United States.