The last we heard about those Call of Duty Endowment dogooders was last year when the group came into existence, announcing intentions of assisting US military veterans with getting work when returning home. But just last week, CODE announced a partnership with two colleges to support scholarship programs in game development for veterans.
Both Austin Community College in Austin, TX and Madison Area Technical College in Madison, WI will offer assistance to veterans "with the costs of software, transportation, and other educational needs" -- while the GI bill is intended to cover the cost of tuition -- to the tune of four $2,500 scholarships per academic year at each school ($1,250 for part-time students). The criteria for receiving aid at each school is slightly different, though not entirely dissimilar: both require a 2.5 cumulative GPA or higher in previous college work, to have been an honorably discharged veteran from the US Armed Forces and to demonstrate a financial necessity for the assistance.
Applications are already open for the coming school year, the first of five years the program is scheduled to run (totaling $100,000 when all is said and done). Interested applicants are encouraged to apply for ACC here and MATC here.
[Via GamePolitics]
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: May 19th 2010 2:46AM Doctor Doom said
Good on Activision for the good deed, but some of the game staff got 1 million dollar bonuses each. I can't help but think this is like Bill Gates giving me a $20 and expecting me to kiss his feet.
Posted: May 19th 2010 3:25AM a dark day said
Activision, try giving them 40,000 a year and I will buy another one of your turd ball games to help fund the scholarships. Till then dont expect it.
Posted: May 19th 2010 5:18AM Killface was here said
awesome, 2500 per semester that'll be great for community college. Thanks activision, you treat our vets better than the government.
Posted: May 19th 2010 8:46AM (Unverified) said
Slam in the face to our Vets, screw off Activision, what is this? Trying to suck up for ur horrible games recently? Trying to make your community feel better? Just go die, seriously, 2.5k per semester? Wow really? Thats just a disgrace to the vets, and I come from a Military family and 2.5k per semester. Yea OK, just cancel this program already
Posted: May 19th 2010 10:41AM Vegeta has a ps3 said
How exactly is this a slap in the face to veterans? I understand that video games are "SEWIOUS BUSINESS" but this is really getting out of hand.
Reply
Posted: May 19th 2010 9:33AM Unthul said
I knew what the comments would look like before I even looked at them, and you people have not let me down. First of all if they feel like it's a slap in their face then they don't have to apply for the aid, it's that simple. Secondly if someone wanted to give me 2.5k a semester back when I was in college, not only would I have not found it to be a slap in the face, but I would have been pretty damn thankful for it. I know this may be shocking to some but most college students need every little penny in help they can get and wouldn't turn it down just because they felt they were too good to be offered only 2.5k. You need to let the Activision/MW2 hate go it's turning into a joke, and I'm talking about in a sad way not a funny one.
Posted: May 19th 2010 9:38AM Ballistic H said
Is the "hate turned to love" because of the new trailer? That would be even more sad.
Reply
Posted: May 19th 2010 10:42AM Vegeta has a ps3 said
Have to agree with Unthul. It's one thing to hate on a bad game a company publishes. It's another thing to just blindly hate anything with the activision name. It makes you look childish.
Reply
Posted: May 19th 2010 9:50AM Unthul said
I think it has more to do with common sense than the new trailer. I don't hate or love Activision or any game company for that matter.
Posted: May 19th 2010 12:06PM Axcalibur said
Even more reason to not purchase Call of Duty titles. I don't want my hard earned money to support US troops or veterans! Maybe if the US stopped wasting so much money killing people around the world all in the name of oil and greed, then they'd have the money to educate their population, so the next generation of American's aren't so stupid and fat!
The new Black Ops trailer looks stupid anyways.
The new Black Ops trailer looks stupid anyways.
Posted: May 19th 2010 4:09PM Enosoma said
$2500 scholarship? Doesn't years of game art design at even the cheapest colleges cost around $20k ?
Featured Stories
Super Joystiq Podcast 004: 38 Studios meltdown, Gravity Rush, Civilization 5: Gods & Kings, Dragon's Dogma
Posted on May 25th 2012 3:30PM





