Six students, including a nontraditional student age 30 or older, will receive scholarship awards of $1,000 or $500 courtesy of the Center for Educational and Career Transition at the University of Colorado at 葫芦娃视频.
Undergraduate student Christina Zigler won a $1,000 scholarship and fellow undergraduates Tawnya Parker and Melissa Spannuth received scholarships for $500. Graduate students Manoela Borges and Maria Tsukernik and nontraditional student Katalin Lustyik all received $1,000 scholarships.
Each of the recipients was chosen based on their biographical application essay, grade point average and amount of financial need.
Zigler is pursuing a degree in her own individually structured major, art-based social change and plans to become a social worker and artist after she graduates. Parker is majoring in kinesiology and hopes to become a physician's assistant. Spannuth is working on a mathematics and physics degree and wants to be a professor.
Borges is working on a doctorate in geography and wants to work in education. Tsukernik is pursuing a doctoral degree in geography and climatology and hopes to be a researcher. Lustyik is working on a doctorate in media studies and would like to become an assistant professor.
To be considered, scholarship applicants must have a 3.5 grade point average or higher. Nontraditional students must have a minimum GPA of 3.0. Last year's scholarship winners all had GPAs of 3.6 or higher.
Applicants must also be enrolled full-time during the semester they wish to receive an award.
The Center for Educational and Career Transition program is housed in Counseling and Psychological Services: A Multicultural Center. The scholarship selection committee includes staff from counseling services and the Women's Resource Center.