Canady Scholarship

Hortense Canady began working at Lansing Community College in September of 1997, starting in the Financial Aid department. In 1989, Hortense was hired as the first Executive Director of the LCC Foundation.

In 1989, Hortense and her daughter, Dr. Alexa Canady-Davis established the Canady Scholarship to support graduating high school seniors or students returning to LCC to pursue any program that transfers to a four-year institution.

Hortense was also a leading figure of Lansing’s civil rights movement who helped to desegregate Lansing’s schools. She was the first black person elected to the Lansing School District’s Board of Education and was one of five board members recalled from the board in 1972 for advocating a school desegregation plan.

Qualifications

• Scholarship recipients must be enrolled in a program that will transfer to a 4-year institution
• Recipient must carry a minimum of 6 credits at LCC
• Recipient must maintain a minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA.
• Recipient must reside within the LCC district
• Financial need will be considered