Gibbens Awarded NCCEF Scholarship

Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation Awards Eleven Scholarships

Michael Gibbens, son of Jeff & Michelle Gibbens of Comstock, has been awarded a scholarship from the Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation in Honor of Michael S. Turner. Michael will be a junior at UNK majoring in agribusiness. The Gibbens’ are members of Country Partners Cooperative.

The Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation (NCCEF) has awarded 11 scholarships totaling $31,000 for the 2020/21 academic year to students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture (NCTA) at Curtis, and the University of Nebraska-Kearney (UNK).

The NCCEF scholarship program was initiated for the 1993/94 academic year with funding from voluntary contributions from the agricultural cooperatives which are members of the Nebraska Cooperative Council. Since the program’s inception, 209 scholarships totaling $251,600 have been awarded.

To be eligible for the scholarships, students must be majoring in agricultural business/economics at UNL, agribusiness or ag production systems at NCTA, or agribusiness at UNK. Eligibility is restricted to sons or daughters of a parent or legal guardian who has been an active member, director, or employee for at least the prior three years of a cooperative which has been a member in good standing of the Council for at least five years.

Congratulations, Michael!