Career Advising at EOU
COMPETITIVE NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS
Eastern is eligible to nominate several students for prestigious national scholarship competitions: Udall, Goldwater, Truman, Rhodes, the British Marshall and Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Each scholarship is linked below for further investigation into eligibility requirements and deadlines. In most cases Eastern may only nominate a few candidates.
Read eligibility requirements and consider qualifications thoughtfully. Because these are highly competitive selection processes, it behooves us to identify candidates with potential in their freshman and sophomore years. Students can then make choices that will enhance their chances for success.
Up to 75 scholarships are made on the basis of merit to two groups of students:
Those who are college sophomores or juniors in the current academic year, have outstanding potential, and intend to pursue careers in environmental public policy; and Native Americans and Alaska Natives students who are college sophomores or juniors in the current academic year, have outstanding potential, and intend to pursue careers in health care or tribal public policy.
Applicants must have at least a "B" average and be in the upper fourth of his/her class. Applications must be received by the Udall Scholarship Foundation by mid- February.
Up to 300 scholarships of up to $7000.00 annually made to juniors and seniors who have "outstanding potential and interest to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and those engineering disciplines that contribute significantly to technological advances." Of these 300 scholarships, Eastern may nominate up to four. Students planning such professional careers as medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and education are not eligible. Candidates must be matriculated sophomore or juniors during the 2002-03 academic year, have a g.p.a. of at least 3.0 (competitive applicants usually have g.p.a.'s of near 4.0), have a class standing in the upper fourth, and be a U.S. citizen, resident alien, or a U.S. national. Applications must be submitted by February 1.
About 85 scholarships are awarded to junior level students who: "have extensive records of public and community service, are committed to careers in government or elsewhere in the public sector, wish to influence public policies, have outstanding leadership potential, and possess intellectual strength and analytical abilities." Scholars selected as juniors and eligible to receive $3000.00 for the senior year and undergraduate education and $27,000.00 for graduate studies. Candidates must be full-time students, committed to a career in public service, in the upper quarter of class standing, and be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national. Applications are due by the end of January.
Thirty-two awards are made in the U.S. each year for full support for up to three years of study at Oxford University. Candidates must be unmarried U.S. citizens, age 18 but not yet 24 on October 1 in the year of application. Candidates must have earned a bachelors degree prior to enrollment at Oxford. Applicants are judged on four standards: "Literary and scholastic attainments; fondness for and success in sports; truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; moral force of character and instincts to lead and to take an interest in one's fellow beings." Applications are due at the state level in early October.
Up to 40 awards are made each year for two years of study in any discipline leading to the award of a British University degree. Awards on the average are about $20,000 per year. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, not have reached their 26th birthday by October 1, hold a bachelor's degree by the time of participation, and have a minimum g.p.a. of 3.7. Applications are due in early October.
The Foundation is devoted to undergraduate resources to students transferring from two-year schools to four-year schools to pursue a bachelor's degree. Up to 30 scholarships are awarded in the spring to be used for the following academic year. Awards vary up to a maximum of $30,000 annually for tuition, room and board and fees for the remainder of the scholar's undergraduate degree. Candidates selected on the basis of merit (academic ability, will to succeed, leadership, volunteerism, critical thinking, and appreciation for the arts and humanities. Additionally financial need is a consideration. To be eligible a nominee must be enrolled in an accredited institution, be a junior in the fall of the award year and have demonstrated academic achievement with a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.0. Applications are due early February.
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR ALL TO APPLY
Variety of grants available for graduate study.
Graduate study fellowships for those wishing to study and teach U.S. Constitution at the secondary school level.
George J. Mitchell Schlorships
One year of graduate study at any university in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
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ACADEMIC & CAREER ADVISING
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Phone: 541-962-3588
Fax: 541-962-3618
E-Mail: advising@eou.edu
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