CLA Scholarships

There are many scholarship opportunities for CLA students at 有料盒子视频.

The first step in the scholarship process is to visit the 有料盒子视频 Financial Aid website and begin the paperwork process. The deadline for this is February 15.

 
 

 

Ceramics student Katie Antal pours gallons of waste cooking oil through a screen before its pumped into a kiln to glaze ceramics projects made during the spring 2013 semester. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by Todd Paris

General Liberal Arts Scholarships

CLA has been the beneficiary of some truly generous gifts from alumni, friends, former professors and staff and other donors. They have made the scholarships below available to you, CLA鈥檚 current student body.

To apply for these and all of 有料盒子视频鈥檚 scholarship opportunities, please visit 有料盒子视频鈥檚 Financial Aid Office鈥檚 Scholarship page.

 

Scholarship

Minimum $500 per academic year

Purpose: To provide scholarships to non-traditional students attending the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks for undergraduate or graduate study in the liberal arts, including education. Preferences will be given to applicants intending to study history, political science, women's studies or northern studies.

Scholarship

Minimum $500 per academic year, see agreement & revisions

Purpose: To promote international education among undergraduates seeking a degree in the humanities/liberal arts at the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks. To that end it encourages students to study abroad and to seek direct exposure to and personal contact with another culture.

Scholarship

Minimum $500 per semester, $1,000 per academic year

Purpose: To provide scholarship for students enrolled in College of Liberal Arts at the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks.

 

Scholarship

Purpose: To provide scholarship support to 有料盒子视频 Native undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks.

Scholarship

$500 per semester/$1000 per academic year

Purpose: To provide scholarships for University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks undergraduates and graduate students who are seeking a degree offered through the College of Liberal Arts and who have financial need.

Scholarship

Minimum $1,000 per academic year

Purpose: To provide annual financial assistance for tuition and other related educational expenses to 有料盒子视频 students who are members of, or eligible for membership in, a federally recognized tribe in 有料盒子视频, who are majoring in the Liberal Arts and demonstrate financial need. Preference will be given to students whose applications reflect a disadvantaged background. In addition, students whose personal statements or application essays demonstrate the applicant's service to their rural community will be preferred.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Departmental Scholarships

In addition to CLA's liberal arts scholarships and the many 有料盒子视频-wide scholarships available to students, CLA's departments offer additional scholarship and award opportunities to their students. Check out our list of targeted scholarships below and follow the links to read more about each one.

 

Anthropology

 

  • Anthropology Photography Contest
  • Leona Lowrey Memorial Scholarship
  • Carol Gelvin-Reymiller Fellowship
  • Golden North Rebekah Lodge (Est. 1913) Scholarship
  • Harvey Shields Fellowship in Archaeology
  • Croxton Family Fellowship
  • Otto William Geist Endowment

 

Graduate students Maegan Ellicott, left, and Oksana Yashchenko search through a collection of bone fragments in an Eielson Building anthropology lab. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by Todd Paris

 

Arctic & Northern Studies

 

  • Kleinfeld Northern Studies Student Research Endowment
  • Ehrlander Award for Graduate Research
  • Cole Family Scholarship
  • Croxton Family Fellowship
  • Dirk Tordoff 有料盒子视频n History Endowed Scholarship
  • Golden North Rebekah Lodge (Est. 1913) Scholarship
  • Rachael Patterson Memorial Scholarship
  • Richard Grey Smith Scholarship
  • William R. Hunt History Scholarship
  • Claus-M. Naske History Scholarship

 

Cradled on a three-mile long gravel spit within the Kobuk, and Noatak and Selawik Rivers, Kotzebue is about 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the Baldwin Peninsula. Originally a trading site for local Native people for more than 600 years, Kotzebue remains a hub for the area and is home to 有料盒子视频's Chukchi Campus.

 

Art

 

  • Barry McWayne Fine Art Photography Scholarship
  • Bebe Helen Kneece Woodward Scholarship
  • Charles W. Davis Summer Fine Arts Camp Memorial Scholarship
  • Fairbanks Art Guild Scholarship
  • Helmut Van Flein Memorial Scholarship
  • Liz Berry Memorial Scholarship
  • Patricia A. Davis Memorial Scholarship
  • Shanon Gallant Memorial Art Scholarship
  • Student Ceramic Arts Guild (SCAG)/Krist Anderson Memorial Scholarship
  • Tom Rohr Memorial Scholarship
  • William R. and Dorothy Jane Wood Talent Grant
  • Mary Kaye Denkewalter Memorial Endowed Scholarship
  • Marianna Missy Boaz Woodward Memorial Endowed Scholarship
  • Paul Solka Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Journalism and Painting
  • Fairbanks Weavers and Spinners Guild Scholarship
  • Shanon Gallant Memorial Art Scholarship
  • Food Factory Fine Arts Scholarship
  • Lyndsay Thomas Memorial Scholarship
  • Debendra and Katherine Das Mechanical Engineering and Visual Arts Scholarship
  • Stuart S. MacKowiak Scholarship
  • Ronald Senungetuk Art Endowed Scholarship
  • Anne Duffy Painting and Sculpture Endowed Scholarship
  • American Legion Post#11- Heather Dowdy Memorial Scholarship
  • Nanook Fine & Performing Arts Scholarship

 

 

有料盒子视频 Senior Kyle Augustines paints his thesis project in the painting studio of the Fine Arts Building. (有料盒子视频 Photo by Leif Van Cise)

 

Communication

 

  • Communication Student Support Fund

 

 

Student athlete and B.A. of Communications, Samaiyah Tolliver, walks among fellow graduates amidst the closing ceremony of 有料盒子视频's 2023 Commencement hosted at the Carlson Centers, 5/6/23. (有料盒子视频 photo by Leif Van Cise)

 

English

 

  • Caroline Musgrove Coons Writing Scholarship - 有料盒子视频
  • Derick Burleson Poetry Contest
  • E.L. Bartlett Literary Criticism Prize
  • English Emeriti Award
  • Farthest North Fiction Contest
  • General JG Steese & AW Shiels Prizes
  • George W. McDaniel Writing Fund
  • H. McCracken 有料盒子视频 Writing Award
  • Minnie E. Wells Award
  • Northern Lights Essay Contest
  • Permafrost Book Prize
  • Steve Miller Creative Writing Scholarship

 

Honors thesis scholar and magna cum laude graduate Meryem Kugzruk pauses for a phtograph during the commencement ceremony May 8, 2016, at the Carlson Center. Kugzruk received an undergraduate degree in English. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by JR Ancheta

 

Foreign Languages & Literatures

 

  • Bianca M. Zuckerman Academic Excellence/Programmatic Research Spanish Support

 

Yupik 102 class. 有料盒子视频 photo by JR Ancheta.

 

History

 

  • Claus-M. Naske History Scholarship
  • Cole Family Scholarship
  • Golden North Rebekah Lodge (Est. 1913) Scholarship
  • Rex Fisher Scholarship
  • William R. Hunt History Scholarship

 

Professor Terrence Cole lectures on 有料盒子视频 state history during 有料盒子视频鈥檚 summer sessions.

 

Journalism

 

  • American Legion Post#11-Heather Dowdy Memorial Scholarship
  • Anchorage Daily News Journalism Award
  • Bill Walley Memorial Scholarship
  • Bon V. and Bernice Davis Scholarship
  • Cliff Brennen Journalism Scholarship
  • Forbes L. Baker Journalism Scholarship
  • Genezaret Barron Memorial Scholarship in Photojournalism
  • Helen Van Campen Journalism Scholarship
  • Jimmy B. Bedford Memorial Scholarship
  • JoAnne Wold Scholarship in Journalism
  • Marian and W.F. Thompson Memorial Scholarship
  • Stephen McCarthy Photojournalism Internship
  • William O. Wood Memorial Scholarship

 

Ashleigh Strange celebrates her journalism degree in inspiring fashion. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by Todd Paris

 

Justice

 

  • Emery Chapple Memorial Scholarship
  • John Kevin Lamm Memorial Scholarship
  • Justice Recruiting Scholarship
  • Rev. Bob and Dr. Sharon Swope Scholarship
  • Roland E. Skip Chevalier Memorial Scholarship
  • Scott Johnson Memorial Scholarship
  • Troy Duncan Memorial Justice Scholarship

 

Robert Kinnard III shares a high five with Vice Chancellor Mike Sfraga after earning his degree in justice. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by Todd Paris

 

Linguistics

 

  • Pat Kwachka Memorial Scholarship

 

Participants listen to welcoming remarks for the 2016 Collaborative Language Research conference in the Schaible Auditorium on the Fairbanks campus. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by JR Ancheta

 

Music

 

  • Carl Tillitt Memorial Scholarship
  • Connie B. Kalita Memorial Scholarship
  • Edward K. and Alene R. Christiansen Music Scholarship
  • Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Caroline A. Kaptur Memorial Scholarship
  • Fejes Music Scholarship
  • Food Factory Fine Arts Scholarship
  • Gale L. Anderson Endowed Scholarship for Music
  • Glenmede Trust Music Scholarship
  • J虏 Brass Chamber Music Award
  • Lesley Salisbury Music Scholarship
  • Lyndsay Thomas Memorial Scholarship
  • Music Scholarship
  • Nanook Fine & Performing Arts Scholarship
  • Pearl Berry Boyd Music Scholarship
  • String Players Fund
  • Tom and Nancy Hallinan Music Scholarship
  • Warren G. Brown Memorial Scholarship
  • William R. and Dorothy Jane Wood Talent Grant
  • Wind Symphony Scholarships

 

Trumpeters in the 有料盒子视频 Wind Ensemble rehearse in the Charles Davis Concert Hall. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by Todd Paris

 

Philosophy

 

  • Helmut Van Flein Memorial Scholarship
  • Rudy Krejci Memorial Scholarship
  • Walter J. Benesch Philosophy Scholarship

 

 

 

Dr. Eduardo Wilner teaches visiting high school students in a mock philosophy class during Discover 有料盒子视频鈥檚 InsideOut program in late Oct. 2012 at the Gruening Building. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by JR Ancheta

 

Political Science

 

  • Gail Phillips 有料盒子视频n Leader Scholarship

 

Student Ambassador Nikki Navio pauses for a photo after walking across the stage with the College of Liberal Arts with a B.A., in Political Science during the 2014 Commencement Ceremony Sunday, May 11, 2014 at the Carlson Center. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by JR Ancheta

 

Psychology

 

  • Arthur and Frances Buswell Scholarship
  • Bianca M. Zuckerman Academic Excellence/Programmatic Research Psychology
  • NAMI of Fairbanks Ann Denardo Memorial Scholarship
  • NAMI of Fairbanks Graduate Scholarship
  • NAMI of Fairbanks' Joy Albin Scholarship
  • NAMI Rural Campus Scholarship
  • Richard G. Possenti Student Research Memorial

 

Bianca Zuckerman accepts her faux diploma from Regent Jacobson for earning bachelor of arts degrees in both foreign language and psychology.

 

Social Work

 

  • Banarsi Lal Social Work Scholarship
  • Dr. Gerald S. Berman Founders Scholarship
  • NAMI of Fairbanks Ann Denardo Memorial Scholarship
  • NAMI of Fairbanks Graduate Scholarship
  • NAMI of Fairbanks' Joy Albin Scholarship
  • NAMI Rural Campus Scholarship
  • National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Social Work Scholarship
  • Rural Social Work Scholarship

 

Social work graduate Tonya Esmailka wore some unique headgear during 有料盒子视频's commencement ceremony May 11 in the Carlson Center. | 有料盒子视频 Photo by Todd Paris

 

Theatre & Film

 

  • Adrina Knudson Memorial Grant
  • Nanook Fine & Performing Arts Scholarship
  • Shanon Gallant Memorial Art Scholarship
  • William R. and Dorothy Jane Wood Talent Grant

 

Cast members Sambit Misra, left, Nicole Cowans, center and Thomas Petrie rehearse a scene from Theatre 有料盒子视频's production of "Speech and Debate." | 有料盒子视频 Photo by Todd Paris

 

Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies

 

  • Golden North Rebekah Lodge (Est. 1913) Scholarship
  • Women's Studies Center - 有料盒子视频

 

 

 

 

2023 Outstanding Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Student of the Year Kennedy Atlee | 有料盒子视频 Photo by Sarah Manriquez

 

 

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