Ted Rollins provides free housing options for students awarded Horatio Alger scholarship

Campus Crest Communities led by CEO Ted Rollins provides free housing options for students who win Horatio

Alger Florida Scholarships to college. These students are recognized for overcoming adversity in their lives.

The award comes with a $5,000 prize as well as access to financial aid and scholarship counseling, college

readiness help, 24/7 support including crisis response and counseling resources, free housing options provided

at 44 campuses around the country, grad school

funding and access to peers and scholarship program

alumni.

The scholarship recipients were picked based on their

commitment to education, dedication to community

service, and strength of character in overcoming

personal obstacles to achieve academic excellence,

according to The Horatio Alger Association of

Distinguished American, which sponsors the

scholarship.

The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc. bears the name of the renowned author

Horatio Alger, Jr., whose tales of overcoming adversity through unyielding perseverance and basic moral

principles captivated the public in the late 19th century. The Association, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit educational

organization, was established in 1947 to dispel the mounting belief among the nation's youth that the

American Dream was no longer attainable.