Scholarships give women boost to enter academia, business world

The Colorado Business and Professional Women’s Foundation (BPW) helps women at turning points in their lives.

The Foundation assists at moments that were so critical that without the help, recipients of their academic scholarships say, life would have been quite different for them, and perhaps not as good.

“I can’t emphasize enough what an incredible organization BPW was for me,´ said Jeanne Oliver, a 1979 recipient of the scholarship. “It was like an army of women was behind me saying ‘you can do it.’ My life could have taken such a different turn.” Oliver has worked 11 years at the…