SCHOLARSHIPS:
School of Journalism Scholarships
The School has scholarship funds that are memorials to faculty
or students or are intended to help students in certain
majors or from certain locales. The application deadline for current undergraduate students
was Dec. 1, 2009.
External Scholarships
KU's external scholarship site, www.scholarships.ku.edu, is an excellent resource for external scholarship listings. Also,
use scholarship search services to learn of other opportunities:
www.fastweb.com,
www.finaid.org and
www.collegeispossible.org
Freshman & Transfer Students
Freshmen should apply for KU
scholarships on their KU admission application by December
1, 2009. Transfer students must apply by February 1, 2010. Visit the KU
Office of Admissions and Scholarships for more details.
The deadline for frosh is Dec. 1 (Nov. 1, 2009, is the OAS early scholarship deadline). The deadline for transfer students is Feb. 1, 2010.
Financial Aid Information
Visit the KU
Office of Student and Financial Aid for more information.Most of the scholarships and award
funds benefiting students in the School of Journalism are
administered by the KU
Endowment Association, which is an independent, nonprofit organization
serving as the official fund-raising and fund-management foundation
for the University. Founded in 1891, the Endowment Association
is the oldest foundation of its type at a public university
in the United States and one of the largest.
AWARDS:
The J-School annually
honors its outstanding students with about 20 named awards.
Awards are established in honor or memory of faculty members
or graduates of the School. Award recipients are chosen by
the faculty members in the specialty represented by the award.
MULTICULTURAL
SCHOLARS PROGRAM:
The multicultural scholars program is
a scholarship/mentoring program for KU students from under-represented
groups. Along with providing students with scholarships, the
program helps students with the academic, social and personal
transition to a university setting.Prof. John Hudnall is coordinator of the program. Please contact him at 785-864-7625 or hudnall@ku.edu with questions.
Two of the School of Journalism’s
former multicultural scholars had this to say about the program:
“The multicultural scholars program
helped me meet younger, pre-journalism students that I might
not have met otherwise,” said Katie Nelson, Shoreview,
Minnesota, senior. “The journalism school helped lead
me to the internships that formed the groundwork for a career
in newspapers. It exposed me to quality teachers and students
with infectious enthusiasm. And most important, it helped
me start developing into the writer I hope to be someday.”
“My first year would have been
more difficult without the multicultural scholars program,”
said Chris Moore, Tulsa, Okla., junior. “The MCS program
helps you with your academic troubles, as well as socially.
Each month we do something as a group and it helps us to keep
in touch with each other so we know what's going on and try
to lend our help if possible. I will always know that my time
at KU would have been far more difficult and rough without
the MCS program.”
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