Service Obligation Requirement

A recipient must sign and return a promissory note agreeing to begin fulfillment of the service obligation as follows:  

• A recipient of the Teaching Fellows scholarship must teach in a public school or public prekindergarten program that has at least 50% of its students eligible for FRPM for the periods specified below:
• ​For a recipient who receives a scholarship as an undergraduate student, the service obligation is 1 year for each year that the recipient receives a scholarship.
• For a student who receives a scholarship as a graduate student, the service obligation is 2 years for each year that the recipient receives a scholarship.

​​​Scholarship Award Amount

A recipient is eligible to receive an award amount as follows:

• At a Maryland public senior higher education institution, the scholarship award is equivalent to 100% of the annual tuition, mandatory fees, and room and board of a resident undergraduate student or graduate student, as appropriate.
• At a Maryland private nonprofit institution, the scholarship award is equal to the lesser of:
• 100% of the annual tuition and mandatory fees of a resident undergraduate student or graduate student, as appropriate, at the University of Maryland College Park (UMPC) and 100% of the room and board of a resident undergraduate student or graduate student, as appropriate, at the institution; or
• 50% of the annual tuition and mandatory fees of a resident undergraduate or graduate student, as appropriate, at the institution and 100% of the room and board of a resident undergraduate student or graduate student, as appropriate, at the institution.
• A private nonprofit institution must provide a matching scholarship award in an amount equal to the State award provided for tuition & fees only.  Private nonprofit institutions are not required to match State funds awarded for room and board.

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• Greta Thunberg
• Lydia X. Z. Brown 
• Sonia Sotomayor
• Dr. Sarai Pahla 
• Alice Wong

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Date: March 9th  from 12pm- 1:00pm

Where: Library Gallery

Attention future entrepreneurs, come join us for our first in-person event in over two years! 

The Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship will host the second Speaker Series of 2022 at the Library Gallery Wednesday, March 29th from noon to 1pm. Come see Founder & CEO of B360, Brittany Young, present “Empathy to Action: How to use Entrepreneurship to Grow Community &  Impact”. 

Brittany plans to talk about how to control the narrative and make systemic change by empowering the people closest to the problem.   The session is designed to uplift participants to become change agents, allies and accomplices to develop ideals that can be shared and incorporated to create systemic change.

You won’t want to miss our first event back in person- check out the flier below for more information!