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Doctoral Students information ....
Doctoral scholarships are a bit more elusive than undergraduate and graduate scholarships. PhD degrees are academically prestigious and require academic perseverance not suited to most students. So not only are scholarship programs fewer in number, those that do exist are highly competitive.
University Fellowships Fund Educations of Many PhD Candidates
University graduate schools where most PhD candidates study are primary sources for scholarship funds. Doctoral students are often employed in fellowships and teaching assistantships, from which they earn a good chunk of tuition cash.
Students only beginning to explore their options for post-grad programs might search our Subject-Specific list for university programs that provide scholarship funds according to student’s interests. This A-Z list categorizes the major fields of study in which students typically major. Some subjects reveal more granular micro-specialties.
Target Doctoral Scholarship Search in Academic and Research Fields
Because PhDs tend to be concentrated in academics or high-level research, many doctoral scholarships will be offered in broad categories:
•The broad field of social sciences includes specific studies like economics, linguistics, and middle eastern studies—all of which produce doctoral level professionals.
•The physical and life sciences studies further sub-divide programs into specializations such as genomics, biotechnology, neurobiology, and physiology.
Within these search parameters doctoral candidates will find scholarships funded by private sources, that front all types of research projects; large, research-heavy universities where populations of doctoral students fuel ongoing, high-level projects; and scholarships funded by the federal government, such as the Fulbright Scholarships and dozens of research fellowships available through federally-funded programs like the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Department of Defense.
Scholarships for Women and Minority PhD Candidates
PhDs have been anything but female and/or minority, traditionally. In efforts to encourage underrepresented populations to pursue post grad studies, many sources design scholarships exclusively for women and minority doctoral candidates. Well-publicized sources for minority doctoral scholarships include:
•United Negro College Fund
•Hispanic Scholarship Fund
•Pharmaceutical companies
•Association for Women in Science
•Society for Women Engineers.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Scholarships for Doctoral Students
Soroptimists offer 2 scholarships
Two scholarships are available from Soroptimist International, a local service club for business and professional women.
The Violet Richardson Award, which honors volunteer work, goes to a girl 14-17 who lives in Ventura. The minimum scholarship is $1,000. Deadline for applications is Dec. 30.
The Women’s Opportunity Award is for women who are returning to or entering the job market and need to upgrade their skills. Candidates should be the head of their household and be enrolled in a skills training program or studying for their undergraduate degree. The minimum scholarship is $1,200. Deadline for applications is Jan. 15.
Applications are available by e-mailing Kay Armstrong at
Friday, June 25, 2010
NCAA proposes end to early scholarship offers
An NCAA committee announced Thursday that it will back a proposal to prohibit making scholarships offers to recruits before July 1 in the summer between their junior and senior years in high school. If passed, it would apply to all sports.
Coaches also would have to receive high school transcripts documenting at least five semesters or seven quarters worth of academic work for a young recruit before they can offer a scholarship.
It is the first recommendation to come out of the Recruiting and Athletics Personnel Issues Cabinet, which is reviewing recruiting conduct. Committee chair Petrina Long acknowledged it would be a difficult rule for school compliance officers to monitor.
But Long, senior associate athletic director at UCLA, said the committee was compelled to propose a change after recruits and their families said they had felt pressured to make decisions before knowing enough about the school's academic programs. Coaches also told the cabinet they were under increased pressure to "keep up" by making offers to younger and younger players or lose out on top recruits.
The issue has drawn headlines when some men's basketball coaches started making offers to middle school players.
The recruiting cabinet also wants to give coaches more flexibility in calling recruits, their parents or legal guardians. If approved, coaches could contact recruits and their families once a month from June 15 of their sophomore year through July 31 of their junior year in high school.
Starting on Aug. 1 of the senior year, coaches could call a recruit twice a week. Coaches would also be allowed to make one call per week to junior college transfers or transfers from other four-year schools.
The rule is already being used in men's basketball and would be expanded to include all sports except football.
The Legislative Council will not vote on any of the proposals before January and it could delay a vote until April 2011.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Scholarship Guidelines need?
Guiding principle your Scholarship ,,,
Basic Scholarship Guidelines
These days it seems you can find just about anything on the internet, including college scholarship money. Since the advent of the World Wide Web, free information has become steadily more accessible and plentiful and we have made it a point to provide as much accurate scholarship information as possible, including basic scholarship guidelines we hope will keep you on the road to free money for college, working daily to make our database the most accurate, complete scholarship database on the internet. We do this with the help of scholarship providers and visitors to Scholarships.com. So many people have been willing to take a few minutes to let us know what they like best about our site and, sometimes more importantly, what could be improved and this has made all the difference in the information we are able to offer and the free scholarship search we provide. Below are a few basic steps you can follow if you use our site and would like to help us to continue to improve it.
If you are someone who is using Scholarships.com to find money for college, be sure to review your results thoroughly before contacting us with suggestions and then, if you have questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
1.Read Summaries.
Be sure to read the award summaries for each scholarship in your search results before you contact the provider. Also, you might want to sort the results by due date, as you might like to know which ones are due right away so you can go after those first. This is a particularly effective strategy if you are getting a later start searching for money, as there are fewer opportunities as the year wears on.
2.Relevance
At times, you might be wondering why you are seeing a particular scholarship listed among your search results. If this is the case, just glance at the upper left side of the award page. You will see your profile and, just below that, a list of criteria by which you were matched with this particular scholarship award. If you see a criterion you feel is inaccurate or ambiguous, please let us know and we will look into it.
3.A Little Help?
Scholarships.com’s free college scholarship search and financial aid information is the product of many years of refinement and effort, aided by participation on the part of scholarship providers and searchers alike. If you have a problem, let us know. If you love our site, don’t be shy, either. We love all forms of feedback and take great pride in the fact that we are constantly improving with the help of those who benefit most from our service. Knowing what we are doing right and on what we might improve are the keys to our continued growth and success.
4.Be Specific.
Please be sure to give us particulars when emailing us with any and all comments or suggestions. If your comment or question concerns a particular award, give us the Scholarship ID Number and articulate what the problem is. We will investigate and, if appropriate, make the appropriate changes. If you get an error message, let us know what page you were on when you got the error (taken straight from the URL bar at the top of your browser window- i.e. http://www.scholarships.com/main.aspx). Copy and paste the text from the error you have received into the body of your email. It is very rare that this sort of thing happens, but if it does, this will help us correct the problem much more quickly.
5.Suggest Away. We’re Listening.
Nobody can work and continue to improve in a vacuum. We have, over the years, received a lot of email that has helped us shape the site you see today at Scholarships.com. We take this type of correspondence very seriously and make every effort to implement any and all reasonable suggestions. It may take weeks or even months, depending upon the suggestion or request, but if we see the merit in it and/or get enough requests for it, it will get done.
These are just a few ways I think we can continue to improve the service we provide. It is perfectly natural and more than understandable to become frustrated with the process of paying for your (or finding a way to pay for your child’s) post-secondary education. However, you have to find a way to count to ten and convince yourself that it is not insurmountable- that you can and will do it. And if we are able to help you accomplish this goal don’t hesitate to let us know how we have and/or can best help you to help yourself.
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