Art & Design Department Scholarship Application for Outstanding First-Year Students

A limited number of scholarships are awarded each year. Scholarship recipients are announced at the First-Year Experience Exhibition Reception in early April.

To qualify for consideration, Art and Design students must satisfy the following criteria:

• Students demonstrate a high level of engagement in their college art and design experience in studio work, co-curricular art and design opportunities, critique, and programming.
• Students demonstrate quality studio work and creative growth.
• Students are respectful, collegial members of this creative community.
• Students maintain a minimum GPA of 3.00 and full-time enrollment status (minimum of 12 credits per semester).
• Students have declared the Art and Design major and are currently in at least one First-Year Program Art and Design course (ART 101, 108, 109, 118, 106).
• Students are encouraged to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for next year by April 1.
  Please contact Cynthia Hayes or contact Melissa Wagner-Lawler with questions.

Recipients will be notified in April and will be invited to participate in the Crossing Over Exhibition in the subsequent fall semester.
NOTE: To receive the scholarship, you must accept the offer in the Panther Scholarship Portal and answer the post-acceptance questions.