Scholarships for Students Pursuing Degrees in Liberal Arts
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Daniel W. and Emma M. Avery Scholarship The Daniel & Emma Avery Scholarship is for students majoring in journalism or graphic arts. Deadline: March 15, 2009 For additional information, please contact Lynne Ensminger, Program Administrator at 317/392-7655 or e-mail lensminger@blueriverfoundation.com. Awards of up to $10,000 for young filmmakers and writers exploring the principles of a free society. Deadline: January 15, 2010 Each year, Humane Studies Fellowships of up to $12,000 are awarded to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students exploring the principles underlying a free society. Deadline: December 31, 2009 Available to juniors and seniors in accredited colleges/universities who have demonstrated excellent newspaper writing, reporting and/or editing skills and who intended to become newspaper journalists. Applicants must have graduated from a Shelby County high school or North Decatur High School. Deadline: March 15, 2009 For additional information, please contact Lynne Ensminger, Program Administrator at 317/392-7655 or e-mail lensminger@blueriverfoundation.com. John and Carol Myers Scholarship Fund The Wabash Valley Community Foundation believes that higher education is the key to future success for individuals and our communities. The Community Foundation honors the area’s youth for their academic success and their community involvement through our scholarship awards. For the benefit of residents of the 7th Congressional District, selection is based upon the following: Deadline: December 15, 2009 For additional information, please contact the Wabash Valley Community Foundation, Inc. at 812/232-2234. The Minorities in Government Finance Scholarship is available for award to an upper-division undergraduate or graduate student enrolled in a course of study preparing for a career in state and local government finance.Deadline: Postmarked no later than March 6, 2009 For additional information, please contact Carole Colin at the Government Finance Officers Association at 312/977-9700.
National Italian American Foundation Scholarships The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) has an education budget of $1,000,000. The NIAF will award scholarships and grants to outstanding students in the summer of 2009 for use during the following academic year. The awards will be made on the basis of academic merit and divided between two groups of students. General Category I: Italian American students who demonstrate outstanding potential and high academic achievements. Area of study: open. General Category II: Those students from any ethnic background majoring or minoring in Italian language, Italian studies, Italian American studies or a related field, who demonstrate outstanding potential and high academic achievements. Deadline: March 6, 2009 Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) is a global professional organization committed to detecting, deterring, and preventing fraud and white-collar crime. Thirty scholarships will be awarded. Each recipient will also receive a one-year ACFE Student Associate membership. Deadline: Received by ACFE by April 17, 2009 For additional information, please contact the ACFE at 800/245-3321 or e-mail scholarships@acfe.com. |
