Scholarships

The School has a number of scholarships available. These awards range from $500 to $2000 annually. A list of available scholarships available from SLIS are on this site as well as a list of current scholarship recipients.

The Student Services Manager handles all inquiries and applications for financial aid administered by the School. Scholarship application deadline is March 15 for Fall. (There are no scholarships awarded in the spring or summer.) The applicant must be fully admitted by this date in order to be considered for an award. Award recipients are chosen by the Student Services and Financial Aid Committee.

Applications for Scholarships administered by the School of Library and Information Science are available in PDF format.

Other scholarship opportunities include but are not limited to:

• ALA Scholarship Program
• SLA (Special Libraries Association) Scholarship Program
  This program consists of awards for graduate study leading to a Master's Degree, graduate study leading to a Ph.D., and for post-M.L.S. study.
• Beta Phi Mu Scholarships and Fellowships
• MLA Grants and Scholarships - MLA offers a variety of scholarships and grants to assist qualified students in graduate library science programs
• Gates Millennium Scholars
• Century Scholarship, American Library Association (ALA) - awards up to $2,500 annually for persons with disabilities.
• LITA Scholarships
• Spectrum Initiative Scholarships, ALA - fifty annual $5,000 awards to persons of African-American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American heritage.
• Library and Information Science Scholarship - established individually by Daniel Kovach. The scholarship is for $500 - to be distributed four times a year.
• Council on Library and Information Science Resources
  CLIR offers a range of fellowships and awards in support of its goal to expand leadership capacity in the information professions
• REFORMA - National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking. Site Inlcudes information about their scholarship.