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The purpose of the UNT Anthropology Community Impact Scholarship (“Scholarship”) is to provide scholarships for anthropology (or its successor) graduate and undergraduate students at the University whose research and/or service work focuses on community impact or community relations broadly construed.

 

The University will receive all gifts and credit them to the Department of Anthropology (or its successor), which will utilize a Scholarship Committee for the department to administer the application and selection process for the Scholarship, in accord with this Gift Agreement and all University policies and procedures. All decisions regarding the size and number of scholarship awards made from this fund shall rest with this committee.

 

To be eligible for consideration, an applicant for the Scholarship must meet the following criteria:

  1. Meet the minimum entrance and continuing academic performance standards of the University (or its successor) in effect at the time of any award;
  2. Maintain at least half-time enrollment as established by the University if an undergraduate student or at least three-quarter time enrollment as established by the University if a graduate student;
  3. Enroll as a student majoring in anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (or their successors);
  4. Have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent);
  5. Be actively working on a research and/or service project focused on ways to increase community impact or improve community relations broadly construed;
  6. Submit an essay of no more than 500 words that explains why the applicant is a strong candidate for this scholarship and how their research project and/or service work addresses ways to increase community impact or improve community relations broadly construed;
  7. Submit a resume or CV;
  8. Be a first-generation student; in the event no applicant meets this criterion, then students who are not first-generation students will be eligible for consideration; and
  9. Demonstrate eligibility for need-based financial assistance as determined by completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) (or its successor), which includes an application process that contains written release from the student to share FAFSA information between University departments and donors coordinating related award processes; in the event no applicant meets this criterion, then students that do not demonstrate eligibility for need-based financial assistance will be eligible for consideration.