Document Communications Scholarships
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The field of document communications covers a wide array of career positions in as many different areas of specialty. Students interested in pursuing a major in document communications will likely be greeted with curriculum ranging from print technique to accounting and business finance.
In the real world, document communications professionals work in positions from entry level to upper management, in printing, content delivery systems, advertising and marketing, graphic arts, instructional design, and many areas of business and industry where high-level communication with varieties of documents is necessary.
Students will find college and university programs that cover all degree levels from Associate, Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D.
Scholarship Programs
The Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) supports and promotes the fields of document communications and various other closely related professions. The organization also is committed to monetary educational support in the form of scholarships:
- EDSF Board of Directors Scholarships are specifically targeted to students in document communications majors. Applicants must present proof of high academic scores.
- Joel Cartun Scholarships are available to upper level students, either undergraduate or graduate in a document communication program.
- Heidelberg USA Scholarships offer the same type of opportunity.
- Hoods Memorial Scholarship was EDSF’s first ever and is given to outstanding students highly motivated in the realm of document communication with an emphasis on “electronic documents.”
- Ian Wild Scholarships are earmarked for Irish or British students whose area of concentration is electronic documentation.
- John A. Lopiano Scholarships are awarded to document communications students. Preference is given to those applicants with a relative in the “high volume computer output (HVCO) industry.”
Xplor Canada, in partnership with the EDSF, provides Canadian students majoring in document communication with scholarship support. The Xplor Canada Association Scholarship Fund provides $2,000 to an upper-level student who is motivated to pursue the field of document communication.
AT&T Labs Fellowships provide highly competitive research opportunities to minority students whose majors are in areas of communications and computers, including document communications majors. Eligible applicants must be doctoral candidates with highly evolved research projects to pursue. Fellowships cover tuition, living and auxiliary expenses for three years.
