Schoolwide Scholarships
Crossing the Cistern
Need help getting your GPA back on track? Crossing the Cistern is a one-year momentum program that helps students improve academic standing as well as support, challenge, and celebrate students along the path to graduation. The primary goals surround the inclusion, retention, and well-being of students, with a particular focus on diverse student populations. The program provides scholarship support, academic advising, professional mentoring, extracurricular programming, and interactive peer communities to help students navigate the academic experience. Duration is the 2021-2022 academic year.
2021-2022 Academic Year:
Application Deadline: August 31, 2021, by 11:59 pm
The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Scholarship
Awards from the Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund for the School of the Arts shall be restricted to undergraduate and graduate full-time and part-time students of the College's School of Arts who are pursuing a course of study as a declared major within the School of the Arts leading to an accredited degree and who also have financial need. (Financial need expressly includes students whose income exceeds government assistance criteria, but who can demonstrate a quantifiable need for assistance.) Preference will be shown to students under consideration for a Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Scholarship who show evidence of 1) having worked for pay or who are working for pay at the present time and 2) having worked without pay in some form of community service or who are working without pay in some form of community service at the present time. Learn more and view the application.
2021-2022 Academic Year:
Application Deadline: March 31, 2021, by 5:00 pm
Notification around: April 9, 2021
School of the Arts Alumni Awards
In 2011 the School of the Arts established an Alumni Awards program in order to honor those former students who have made significant progress in their careers, the arts, or have given of themselves as donors and/or volunteers. Previous winners include:
2019
- Achievement: Eric Sean Fogel ’97; Michael Ann Wilson ’00
- Service: JohnPaul Schutz '00
- Young Alumnus: Ginger Vallen '05; Lauren Frances Evans '11, Giovanna Quattrone '15
2018
- Achievement: Robert Condy ’99; Margaret Furniss ’00; Kevin Hamilton ’95
- Philanthropy: Matthew Kennedy ‘00
- Service: Gregory Joye ’95
- Young Alumnus: Ashley Fabian ’13
2017
- Achievement: Clay Ross ’98
- Philanthropy: Lisa Roy ’06
- Young Alumnus: Eliot Dudik’07; William Bennett ’04
2016
- Achievement: Robert B. Snead ’02; Richard Evan Linder ’04
- Young Alumnus: George Patrick McLeer ’10; Tanya Garcia '11
2015
- Achievement: Joseph Burwell '93