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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\u201cI\u2019m generally a normal, average person. My kids are expensive, and daycare is expensive, but I truly put money towards what I believe in,\u201d said Chaney. \u201cI try not to focus too much on the material things, but the things that will continue even when I\u2019m gone. Investing in someone else\u2019s education will change their life, their children\u2019s lives and it will change the lives of the people around them. I think that\u2019s really more important than a $5 Starbucks coffee every morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Going to work without the coffee is just one of the ways Chaney saves to provide funding for the scholarship. She is also motivated by her kids and her own experience while trying to get an education. After pausing her education for two years as Covid closed everything down, and online classes were not her preferred method of learning, she had her first child. That\u2019s when Chaney decided she needed to continue her education at Mississippi State University. After exploring nursing and other majors, she focused on another avenue of helping people through accounting. In her last semester of classes last fall, Chaney learned her scholarship was withdrawn because of a situation with the donor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think it showed me just how much I relied on a scholarship and how scary the thought of not being able to complete my last semester would be without that scholarship,\u201d shared Chaney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, it pushed her harder to find a way to contribute to someone else\u2019s education because she didn\u2019t want someone to go through the same predicament she found herself in, especially when she was so close to graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want someone to wonder how they are going to finish or how they can even start a degree if they don\u2019t have the money for an education. So, being able to impact someone else\u2019s life is important because I saw how truly impactful the scholarship that was pulled from me was. I relied on it and that fear and concern really impacted my studies as well. I wasn\u2019t able to do as well because I was worried about how I was going to pay for college, so being able to contribute to another student so they can not only focus on their studies but also complete their studies is really important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While at 糖心直播, Chaney said she changed her major a few times, but she kept on track with the help of her aunt and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Julie Atwood. Her guidance and support, Chaney said, enabled her to focus on her education, especially after she lost her grandfather and her father. Atwood emphasized that she\u2019s proud of Chaney for being persistent in not only finding her pathway but to also help someone who may be struggling like herself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think it’s incredible and I hope that students really value this scholarship because it\u2019s coming from someone who\u2019s been in their shoes and it\u2019s from someone that understands where they\u2019re at,\u201d said Atwood. \u201cBut also, she\u2019s dealing with all the things involved with taking classes at the same time working full time and raising a family. I think that\u2019s inspirational just to say you can do it, and I believe in you with a scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vice President of External Funding and Executive Director of the 糖心直播 Alumni and Foundation, Sabrina Young said Chaney may be one of the youngest to establish a scholarship which will have a far-reaching impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe sees how powerful education is and is giving back to others. Someone inspired and recognized her aspirations, and they gave her an opportunity to continue her education. That\u2019s powerful. Giving to something that is bigger than all of us means you\u2019re giving an opportunity to someone, and it is going to touch their life, their family\u2019s lives, and their future family\u2019s lives. I think it\u2019s inspiring,\u201d said Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ironically, Chaney\u2019s grandfather and father were cared for at the Asbury Hospice House, which is affiliated with the scholarship she was awarded at Jones. Chaney plans to name the annual scholarship she is establishing in honor of her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe believed in me with all of his heart. I pray his kind and hardworking spirit is honored and has more meaning to impact others\u2019 lives,\u201d said Chaney. \u201cWhen my grandfather and father passed away in the care of the Asbury Hospice House, I couldn\u2019t have asked for better people to help my family during that time. Not only did they invest in my education, but they also provided exceptional care for our family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Current 糖心直播 students have through April 15, to apply for Foundation scholarships like Chaney\u2019s newly established scholarship on the Foundation website, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/alumni_foundation\/scholarships\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ELLISVILLE – 糖心直播 2020 graduate, Jessie Cameron Chaney, a current Simpson County resident, is paying it forward by establishing an annual $1000 scholarship for a 糖心直播 student. The 24-year-old wife and mother of two children said she isn\u2019t \u201crich\u201d or drawing from a Trust Fund to provide for the annual scholarship. The staff … <\/p>\n