Campus Services announces its 2018 Campus Life Scholarship

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Event Details
  • Dates/Times:
    • Monday February 5, 2018 - Wednesday March 7, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Tuesday February 6, 2018 - Thursday March 8, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Wednesday February 7, 2018 - Friday March 9, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Thursday February 8, 2018 - Saturday March 10, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Friday February 9, 2018 - Sunday March 11, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Saturday February 10, 2018 - Monday March 12, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Sunday February 11, 2018 - Tuesday March 13, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Monday February 12, 2018 - Wednesday March 14, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Tuesday February 13, 2018 - Thursday March 15, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Wednesday February 14, 2018 - Friday March 16, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Thursday February 15, 2018 - Saturday March 17, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Friday February 16, 2018 - Sunday March 18, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Saturday February 17, 2018 - Monday March 19, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Sunday February 18, 2018 - Tuesday March 20, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Monday February 19, 2018 - Wednesday March 21, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Tuesday February 20, 2018 - Thursday March 22, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Wednesday February 21, 2018 - Friday March 23, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Thursday February 22, 2018 - Saturday March 24, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Friday February 23, 2018 - Sunday March 25, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Saturday February 24, 2018 - Monday March 26, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Sunday February 25, 2018 - Tuesday March 27, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Monday February 26, 2018 - Wednesday March 28, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Tuesday February 27, 2018 - Thursday March 29, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Wednesday February 28, 2018 - Friday March 30, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Thursday March 1, 2018 - Saturday March 31, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Friday March 2, 2018 - Sunday April 1, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Saturday March 3, 2018 - Monday April 2, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Sunday March 4, 2018 - Tuesday April 3, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Monday March 5, 2018 - Wednesday April 4, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Tuesday March 6, 2018 - Thursday April 5, 2018
      10:27 am
    • Wednesday March 7, 2018 - Friday April 6, 2018
      10:27 am
  • Location: Atlanta, GA
  • Phone: 404-894-4990
  • URL: Campus Life Scholarships
  • Email: melissa.moore@gatech.edu
  • Fee(s):
    N/A
  • Extras:
Contact

Melissa Moore
Director of Commuications & Public Relations
Campus Services

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Campus Services will be awarding up to five Campus Life Scholarships each for $6,000.

Full Summary: The Campus Life and Community at Tech Scholarship seeks to recognize and reward students that have positively impacted the Institute community through their leadership, scholarship, and service.  The presence of vibrant academic and social communities are essential for quality student life.  Consistent with the mission and vision of the Student Center, healthy communities are characterized by cooperation, commitment, diverse perspectives, meaningful connections, mutual respect, belonging, and loyalty.  Recipients of this scholarship will successfully demonstrate a purposeful and significant commitment to building campus community and enhancing student life through their role in a new or enhanced program, activity, or initiative.   

The Campus Life and Community at Tech Scholarship seeks to recognize and reward students that have positively impacted the Institute community through their leadership, scholarship, and service.  The presence of vibrant academic and social communities are essential for quality student life.  Consistent with the mission and vision of the Student Center, healthy communities are characterized by cooperation, commitment, diverse perspectives, meaningful connections, mutual respect, belonging, and loyalty.  Recipients of this scholarship will successfully demonstrate a purposeful and significant commitment to building campus community and enhancing student life through their role in a new or enhanced program, activity, or initiative.

Primary Selection Criteria

The applicant’s role in and impact of a new or enhanced program, service, activity, or other initiative that significantly contributed to student life and enhanced community on campus.

Selection Criteria

  • Scope and impact of program, service, activity, or initiative
  • Applicant’s role in the program, service, activity, or initiative
  • Sustainability of program, service, activity, or initiative
  • Impact  of community building in the program, service, activity, or initiative

Additional application elements

  • Short answer responses
  • Video or presentation (eg. Prezi, Powerpoint) uploaded to YouTube that describes your community enhancing program, activity, or initiative. You will want to creatively convey your impact and the intersection of leadership, scholarship, service, and campus community at Tech. Videos should not exceed two minutes and presentations should not exceed 10 slides.
  • Two on-campus references that can speak to the applicant’s character, leadership, commitment to campus community building, and their role in the relevant program, service, activity or initiative. Both must be from faculty, staff, or administrator.

Applicant Requirements

  • GPA must be a 3.0 or higher
  • Applicant must be a current Georgia Tech undergraduate or graduate student and at least a second semester freshman, and be enrolling in the 2018-2019 academic year.
  • Two references from faculty and/or staff on campus
  • Completed application by deadline of March 7, 2018
  • A student in Good Standing

Application Process Timeline

  • Feb. 2nd – Applications available
  • March 7th – deadline for Completed Applications
  • March 12th – March 23rd – Review of applications starts
  • March 25th – Contact candidates to interview
  • March 28th – April 6th – Interviews and selection of recipients
  • April 7th – Announce Scholarship recipients
  • April 12th – Scholarship Recognition Luncheon

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
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Groups

Campus Services

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Other/Miscellaneous
Keywords
Scholarships
Status
  • Created By: Melissa Moore
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Feb 2, 2018 - 10:46am
  • Last Updated: Feb 5, 2018 - 11:13am