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Scholarships
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GSE Scholarship & Fellowship Application Information
Application deadline for fall awards:  March 1

The GSE has funds for student financial aid in the form of scholarships and fellowships. In the past, these awards have generally been in the range of $500. to $2,500. Criteria for awards vary as shown in the table below. Awards to students are made on the basis of:

  • Outstanding academic promise or achievement, and/or
  • Unusual financial circumstances or need.

To be considered for an award, you must submit the following materials as a single packet to your department chair:

  1. A scholarship and fellowship application (see your department for this information or download it here.)
  2. Two letters of recommendation from individuals, especially GSE faculty with whom you have studied or worked, who can describe your scholarly potential.
  3. A statement of your professional goals (1-2 pages).
  4. A copy of your Rutgers transcript (if you are a current student). This may be an unofficial transcript printed from your online records.
  5. For a Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship (available to any student), a short (two-page limit, double-spaced) essay on “The Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Its Relevance for Education.”

To be considered for an award based on financial need, applicants must also complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form.  This form is used to determine financial need, and can be completed on line at http://studentaid.rutgers.edu.

Information contained in your student folder, including your admissions materials, may be considered in the application process. Decisions about awards are made by the GSE Scholarships and Fellowships Committee.

All materials must be submitted to your department chairperson by March 1. Applicants will be notified about awards by mail by May 1. Questions about the application process should be directed to your department chairperson.

Program

Description/restrictions

Typical award

Requirements

 

Graduate School of Education-Annual Fund Scholarships

Must be enrolled a minimum of six credits per semester.  Award based on financial need; have or maintain a 3.0 GPA; professional, community, school accomplishments.

 

$2,500.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.
  • Career goal stated on one typed page.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Award

Full time student in GSE. Open competition, first consideration to minority students. Combination of financial need and academic merit.

 

$2,500.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.
  • Applicant must submit a paper on “The Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Its Relevance for Education.”

Graduate/Law School

Academic merit only.

 

$2,000.

Plus tuition

 
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.

Charles Sumner Crow Endowment Scholarship Fund

 

Male student.

$3,000.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.
  • A half page paper on the philosophy of education.

Norma Nevola Sutera Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Scholarships are to be awarded to full-time students in the GSE who are studying Literacy Education and intend to pursue a career in education as a reading specialist or in a related field.

 

Amount Varies
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.

Edward Fry Endowed Graduate

Each award shall approximate the salary paid a teaching or graduate student. Merit, as determined by scholarly achievement and promise shall be one criterion. Fund is to enable a person to participate in the Reading program. The award is usually to be given for the first year.

 

$13,700.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.

Clarence E. Partch Memorial

 

Full time student in GSE.

$1,500.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.

Samuel D. Proctor Award

For the scholarly and professional development of GSE students.  The criteria are financial need, talent, and high potential for service to education in urban areas.

 

$1,500.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.

Samuel D. Proctor Fellowship

Any student, pursuing a doctoral degree in any approved doctoral program, who is African-American or Latino is eligible.  A candidate may be nominated by GSE faculty, school superintendents, principals or supervisors.

 

$3,000. - $5,000.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.
  • Three letters of recommendation on a variety of perspectives on a candidate to the respective department chair by March 1.
  • Finalists for this fellowship will be required to make a 15 minute oral presentation to the committee.

Ruth and Stanley Kosensky

Particular concern for those majoring in Social and Philosophical Foundations.

 

$450.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application.
  • Need for financial assistance.

Nancy Higginson Dorr Prize

Awarded to Teacher Education students who are nominated by their student teaching supervisors as demonstrating promise to be outstanding teachers.

 

$500. - $1,000.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application submitted to the Office of Teacher Education.
  • Brief biographical summary related to the selection of teaching as a profession.  
  • Recommendation from one professor.

Madelyn McCarthy Miller Memorial Scholarship Fund

Awarded to a student in the field of special education planning a career in teaching.  Must be in good academic standing

 

$1,500. - $2,000.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application

Hand to Hand Scholarship

Scholarships are awarded to students in the masters (with certification) program who are entering the student teaching component of their program in the fall semester, based on academic merit as determined by the program administrator.

Minimum of $500.
  • GSE Scholarship and Fellowship application
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