Educational Administration Scholarships
Graduate School Scholarships for Education Professionals
If you think school reform is taking place only at the classroom level, think again. Today's new graduates of Educational Administration and Policy programs are being taught how to rethink education and leadership. Professionals in the field include superintendents and principals. These are the leaders whose ability to innovate and mold may create exemplary private and public school systems.
Educational Administrators do not just happen; most students have already served in positions as educators at various levels with a desire to become involved at the administrative level. EA professionals are required to have at least a Masters degree, but most earn their Ph.D.
Scholarships
The American Association of School Administrators funds the annual Educational Administration Scholarship. The $6,000 awards go to outstanding graduate students studying Educational Administration and who show exemplary leadership abilities. Nominations for the award are placed by faculty and/or administrators.
University of Tennessee awards a handful of scholarships to graduate Educational Administration majors:
- Orrin Graff Scholarship is a competitive award given to doctoral students in the major. Recipients must be outstanding in a range of areas including leadership, academics and sensitivity to socio-political changes that affect the environment of education.
- Erma Graff Scholarship is awarded on the same criteria as the Orrin.
- Billie Cannon De Mont Scholarship may be awarded to a doctoral or Masters level student. Leadership and academics must be consummate.
- Charles and Sherry Morgan Fellowship Endowment is given to a doctoral student with superior academics in combination with demonstrated financial need.
Scholarships in Educational Administration sponsored by Illinois State University include:
- Hubbard-Hickrod Scholarship goes to a graduate student whose career emphasis lies in administration of K-12 schools with an interest in educational budgeting and finance. Awards are $500.
- M.M. Chambers Scholarship is awarded to a doctoral student for a combination of above the board academics as well as financial need. Awards are $500.
- Elden Lichty Scholarship recognizes those graduate students with outstanding academics as well as commitment to educational administration in a community college or technical college environment. Preference is given to applicants with financial need.
- William L. and Creta D. Sabine Scholarship Award gives $500 to an academically talented graduate student in the Educational Administration program.
- Elwood Egleston Scholarship Award recognizes a graduate student with a pronounced commitment to educational leadership.
- LEADS Fellowship for Doctoral Students is the newest addition to the stable of scholarships. The program is still funding, but hopes to assist students with significant awards that lend them the ability to complete dissertations and create educational experiences of value.
The College of Education at the University of Georgia sponsors the following scholarships for Educational Administration and Policy:
- Carol Wade McGuffey Scholarship is awarded to a doctoral student with outstanding academics in combination with an interest in examining the environment of educational institutions with respect to student/teacher attitudes.
- Ray Bruce Academic Support Scholarship awards $500 to graduate students in the educational administration program with an interest in "instructional supervision."
- David Mullen Scholarship recognizes an outstanding doctoral candidate in the process of writing his/her dissertation and who has committed to administration in a public school system. Awards are $1,000.
