The Women's Center is excited to announce that the Returning Women Students Scholarships Application for 2017-2018 is now available. The deadline for submission is Friday, March 31, 2017.
This common application enables eligible students to apply for more than one of the Returning Women Students Scholarships using the same application. The four available scholarships are:
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Scholarship & The UMBC Scholarship for Mature Students
- AEGON Scholarship
- The Richard & Roselyn Bryson Neville Memorial Fund for Returning Women Scholarship
- The Rosalie Tydings Business and Professional Women’s Scholarship
All undergraduate students over the age of 25 and with at least 60 credits may be eligible. You must be completing your first undergraduate degree. Each scholarship has additional eligibility requirements which can be found on the common application instructions.
The application is attached to this announcement. Please be sure to read over the eligibility requirements before applying.
If you have any questions concerning the application process or the scholars program requirements, please contact the Women's Center director, Jess Myers, at womens.center@umbc.edu.
We will also be hosting 2 information sessions related to the application process and scholars program requirements. The information sessions will be held in the Women's Center on Wednesday, February 22nd from 12-12:45pm OR Thursday, March 16th from 4-4:45pm. Each year, applicants submit applications with errors that often impact their consideration for a scholarship. We highly encourage all applicants to attend an info session before submitting their application.
*Note: We have just added an info session via google hangouts for Monday, March 13th at 8pm. Log into the info session using this link between 8-8:30pm.
