Scholarships, Assistant Positions, and Grants

The graduate school is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse student body that incorporates multiple perspectives, cultures, learning styles and ways of knowing. Awarded by individual departments, the scholarships are intended to further this goal by offering financial assistance to prospective and continuing students who need financial support to pursue their graduate education and who meet each scholarship’s eligibility requirements.

Scholarship awards and application processes vary per program. Program application materials and financial need as determined by the FAFSA may be used to select scholarship recipients unless otherwise noted. All students who apply for admission and file a FAFSA will be considered for the maximum loans and scholarships available. Timely completion of the program application and the FAFSA is strongly recommended.

Please use the links below to find information about scholarships, assistant positions, and grants:

• Counseling Psychology Scholarships

• Educational Leadership Scholarships

• School Counseling Scholarships

• Teacher Education: M.A.T. Preservice Scholarships

Graduate Assistant Positions

Lewis & Clark’s Division of Student Life offers graduate assistant positions every year. Currently enrolled and new, deposited students in the School Counseling and Counseling Psychology programs are eligible to apply. Application information and forms can be found by clicking Graduate Assistants Positions.

External Scholarship Opportunities

The Financial Aid Office also hosts a website with information about searching for external scholarship opportunities. For example, students who are Oregon residents may be eligible for scholarships sponsored by the Oregon Student Assistance Commission. Your field’s professional organizations may also sponsor scholarships.

Joyce Elaine Kruger Scholarship
Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) of Salem, Oregon is pleased to administer this scholarship in honor of one of their members. The scholarship is for a woman from the greater Salem area pursuing a post-graduate degree in an institution within the greater Willamette Valley area in Oregon. Click here for application instructions. For further information contact jekscholarshiop@gmail.com.

Luce Scholars Program
Lewis & Clark is one of 75 institutions eligible to have students and recent alums apply for this fellowship opportunity.

The Luce Scholars Program represents a major effort by the Henry Luce Foundation to provide an awareness of Asia among potential leaders in American society. The program is aimed at a group of highly qualified young Americans in a variety of professional fields. It is unique among American-Asian exchanges in that it is intended for young leaders who have had limited prior experience in and of Asia and who might not otherwise have an opportunity in the normal course of their careers to come to know Asia. The program provides stipends, language training and individualized professional placement in Asia for fifteen to eighteen young Americans each year. Placements can be made in the following countries or regions: Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Eligibility: Candidates must be American citizens, who, by September 1 of the year they enter the program, will have received at least a bachelor’s degree and will not have reached their 30th birthday. Nominees should have a record of high achievement, outstanding leadership ability, and a clearly defined career interest with evidence of potential for professional accomplishment.

Required application documents include a carefully completed application form, four letters of recommendation, academic transcripts and two photos.

Note: Those who already have significant experience in Asia or Asian studies are NOT eligible for the Luce Scholars Program.

For a full description and access to the application form, go to:

http://www.hluce.org/lsapp.aspx

Lewis & Clark campus deadline: October 5, 2012
Lewis & Clark campus contact: Andrew Cortell apc@lclark.edu