Institutional Scholarships
Scholarship awards range in dimension and canopy instructional bills as outlined within the scholarship’s description supplied by the Scholarship Chairperson. All college students who apply for or obtain tutorial scholarships should keep the cumulative grade level common as acknowledged, besides the place scholarships are donated and permit lower than a “B” common by the donor. Scholarships should not redeemable as money however are provided by the Faculty for the particular goal of being utilized in direction of the coed’s direct instructional value (prices payable to the Faculty).
The Faculty’s Institutional Scholarships/Grant-in-Help is awarded as supplementary funds, utilized to the coed’s indebtedness in spite of everything different help has been decided. All Institutional Scholarship/ Grant in assist funds which are in extra of the coed’s direct tutorial expense(s) will revert to the Faculty’s Institutional Scholarship/Grant-In-Help Fund for allocation to different eligible college students.
President’s Scholarship. Recipients who qualify will need to have a GPA of three.70 and a minimal SAT rating of 1160 or an ACT composite rating of 24. The award covers tuition, room, and board for residential college students. The quantity of this award could range relying on the coed’s assist from different sources. This scholarship is renewable for as much as three years and a category load of 15 hours per semester.
Dean Scholarship. Recipients who qualify will need to have a GPA of three.2 and a minimal SAT rating of 1020 or an ACT composite rating of 20. The award quantity is $5,000 and is renewable for as much as three years and a category load of 15 hours per semester. The quantity of this award could range relying on the coed’s assist from different sources.
Bridge Scholarship. Required Excessive College/Faculty GPA 2.75. The award quantity is $2,500 and is renewable for as much as three years. The quantity of this award could range relying on the coed’s assist from different sources.
Presidential Discretionary Scholarship. Recipients are chosen by the President of the Faculty. The award quantity varies every year and should cowl tuition, complete payment, and room and board for residential college students. Different assist sources are thought-about as nicely to find out the coed’s award bundle. Extra annual awards are on the President’s discretion.
Athletic Grant-in-Help. Recipients who’re chosen should be eligible to take part within the NCAA Division II Intercollegiate Athletic Program. The quantity of those awards could range relying on the coed’s assist from different sources. Awards could cowl tuition, charges, room & board, minus any grants and institutional assist the recipient could also be receiving. Suggestions for one of these assist are made by the Athletic Director and/or Head Coach, primarily based upon the principles and rules of the NCAA, SIAC, and the athlete’s efficiency in competitors. A recipient will probably be evaluated to be thought-about for Grant-In-Help renewal every year. For additional data, please contact the Athletic Division.
Efficiency Grant-In-Help. Recipients who qualify are these whose coaching or skill permits them to play within the Faculty’s Band, sing within the Choir, or carry out as a Faculty cheerleader For extra data contact the Band Director, Choir Director, or Cheerleader Sponsor.
Worker Academic Help Program. Academic help i.e. Workers Help is offered to all full-time staff and their certified dependents that need to additional their training on the Faculty. Class hundreds to not exceed six semester hours per semester are supplemented as much as 100% for college and workers members who’ve accomplished one yr of service on the Faculty. Spouses and naturally born or legally adopted kids who’re single dependents of full-time college and workers members could enroll full-time or much less per semester. To be eligible to obtain this supplemental help, federal and state monetary assist functions should be filed and accomplished yearly and a “C” or 2.Zero GPA should be maintained. Any particular person in default on any mortgage won’t be eligible for Workers assist. Since this can be a supplemental tuition waiver, funded by the Establishment with no money worth, staff, spouses, and certified dependents should be eligible to obtain Federal assist. The tutoring waiver will solely pay the remaining stability after the federal and state assist is set. To use, an worker instructional profit type should be accomplished at the very least one month previous to registration every semester and submitted to the Director of Human Assets. Advantages are contingent upon continued employment. If employment is terminated for any motive, ONLY the present semester will probably be honored.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Scholarship. The Birmingham Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. offers scholarships of as much as $3,000 to worthy college students who’ve demonstrated character, scholarship, expertise, and wish for monetary help. Suggestions for the awards are made by the Scholarship Committee and school members who’re members of the sorority.
United Negro Faculty Fund Scholarship. Scholarship funds can be found to potential/persevering with college students at Miles Faculty. Necessities for every sort of UNCF scholarship are set by UNCF. UNCF personnel make the number of the award recipient and notify the recipient and the Faculty.
New college students making use of for UNCF scholarships should submit an software for admission, their tutorial transcripts, and their SAT or ACT scores to and enroll at Miles Faculty. As well as, every new or persevering with applicant should full and submit the Free Utility for Federal Scholar Help itemizing Miles Faculty because the recipient. Candidates should full a scholarship/grant software type at www.uncf.org.
Military and Air Pressure ROTC Scholarships. Scholarships can be found to college students enrolled within the AROTC and AFROTC packages by way of a cross-registration with the College of Alabama in Birmingham and Samford College, respectively. The UAB Military ROTC awards two and three-year scholarships to a whole bunch of scholars every year, primarily based solely on advantage. Qualify, and you would obtain a full scholarship for tuition and academic charges, plus cash for books and a month-to-month allowance to assist cowl the day-to-day prices of faculty. For extra particulars, contact UAB Military ROTC at (205) 934-8749 or e-mail: roo@uab.edu. Samford Air Pressure ROTC scholarships are extraordinarily aggressive. To make sure you’re a high candidate just remember to have the very best GPA potential, rating nicely on the ACT or SAT, and keep bodily match to go the Bodily Health Evaluation (PFA). For extra particulars, contact the Recruiting Flight Commander, Detachment 012, Air Pressure ROTC at (205) 726-2859 or e-mail det012@us.af.mil.
The Johnny Morrow Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is donated by the Morrow household in reminiscence of their late brother, Johnny Morrow, a Miles Faculty graduate. The scholarship is given yearly for the acquisition of textbooks to 2 college students who’ve demonstrated a monetary want. Suggestions are made by the Faculty Scholarship Committee.
Federal Monetary Help Applications. College students searching for monetary assist help by way of the Division of Training’s federal pupil assist packages should apply utilizing the (FAFSA) Free Utility for Federal Scholar Help at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Miles College Code (001028). The Faculty administers the Federal Scholar Help Applications in accordance with Federal guidelines and rules.
Federal Pell Grant Program (PG). Federal Pell Grants are awarded to help undergraduates (1st Bachelor’s diploma) pay for his or her training after highschool. For a lot of college students, the Federal Pell Grant supplies a “basis” of monetary assist to which assist from different Federal and non-Federal sources could also be added. In contrast to loans, grants do not need to be repaid. To find out eligibility, college students should apply for a Federal Pell Grant utilizing the (FAFSA). The quantity of every Pell Grant award per time period will rely additionally in your enrollment standing per credit score hour load. Award quantities range primarily based on full-time, three-quarter-time, part-time, and fewer than part-time. Modifications within the legislation have an effect on Federal Pell Grant awards, this modification limits the overall variety of years a pupil could obtain a Federal Pell Grant to the equal of six years (12 semesters = 600%).
Federal Supplemental Academic Alternative Grant (FSEOG). Federal Supplemental Academic Alternative Grants are “campus-based” federal help, which is offered to undergraduate college students (1st Bachelor’s diploma college students) who’ve demonstrated a monetary want. This grant quantity varies as much as $4000 and relying on the necessity, the provision of Federal SEOG funds on the Faculty, and the quantity of different assist provided. A recipient should be eligible for a Federal Pell Grant to obtain this assist, supplied funds can be found. Funds are typically not ample to satisfy the necessity of each eligible pupil; and Pell Grant recipients with the bottom EFCs are thought-about first.
Federal Work-Research Program (FWSP). The Federal Work-Research Program supplies jobs for college students who’ve demonstrated a monetary have to earn cash to pay a part of their instructional bills. A pupil may fit as much as 20 hours per week whereas faculty is in session. College students are permitted to work 40 hours per week throughout breaks and trip intervals. Whereas working 40 hours per week, college students are required to save lots of a portion of their earnings to satisfy the expense of the subsequent enrollment interval (e.g.. Fall, Spring, or Summer season). Federal Work Research Recipients will probably be notified by mail of their job assignments from the Federal Work-study Coordinator. It is a JOB established by the Faculty, and Work-Research payroll funds are processed on a month-to-month foundation every semester.
Instructor Training Help for Faculty and Larger Training (TEACH) Grant. TEACH grants can be found to Training majors in specified tutorial scarcity areas who agree to show full time for at the very least (4) years inside (8) years of commencement at a faculty serving a excessive proportion of low-income college students. Recipients should keep a 3.25 cumulative common and carry a full-time load (minimal of 12 hours).
William D. Ford Federal Direct Backed/ Unsubsidized Scholar Mortgage Program. These are low-interest charge loans made to college students by the U.S. Division of Training to assist pay for his or her training after highschool. Sub and unsubsidized mortgage quantities range primarily based upon the coed’s tutorial classification, annual mortgage restrict, and combination mortgage most. Unsubsidized loans should not primarily based on monetary want. Curiosity is charged all through the lifetime of the mortgage and the coed borrower could select to pay the curiosity charged on the mortgage or enable the curiosity to be capitalized (added to the mortgage principal). Federal Direct Mortgage debtors taking their first mortgage on or after July 1, 2013, could qualify for a backed Direct Mortgage for a most of 150% of the size of their tutorial program. Backed mortgage eligibility is proscribed to six years in a Four yr program. College students reaching this limitation might obtain unsubsidized loans if eligible. Eligibility for a Federal Pell Grant should be decided earlier than a Direct Mortgage is awarded. To just accept and have a Direct Mortgage disbursed to the coed’s faculty account, Federal Direct Mortgage Entrance Counseling and Grasp Promissory Observe should be accomplished at www.studentloans.gov.
William D. Ford Federal Direct Mum or dad Mortgage for Undergraduate College students Program (PLUS). Plus loans are made to the mother and father of dependent undergraduate college students and are to not be confused with Graduate Plus loans. The PLUS isn’t primarily based on monetary want and is proscribed to a dad or mum borrower for a dependent pupil attending at the very least half-time. A dad or mum is presently outlined as an individual’s pure or adoptive mom or father, or the step-parent married to the custodial dad or mum. Mother and father are required to go a credit score test. PLUS loans carry a set rate of interest and an origination payment. The dad or mum who accomplished the FAFSA software and has an FSA ID can apply. Sure dad or mum debtors might also be required to finish federal PLUS mortgage counseling; nonetheless, the U.S. Division of Training will present the notification if this counseling requirement should be met.
State Monetary Help Applications. The Faculty administers the state pupil assist packages in accordance with state and federal guidelines and rules. College students searching for monetary assist help by way of state monetary assist packages should observe the Faculty’s insurance policies and procedures and state assist software pointers to be eligible.
Alabama Scholar Grant Program (ASGP). The Alabama Scholar Grant Program was established for undergraduate, non-sectarian, secular training at impartial, non-profit, post-secondary establishments of upper studying situated throughout the State of Alabama. This isn’t a need-based program. Grant quantities range from yr to yr primarily based on the provision of funds, however can’t exceed $1,200 per tutorial yr. College students who’re residents of the State of Alabama are required to use for this Grant. Purposes are despatched to those that qualify or could also be obtained from the Monetary Help Workplace or from www.miles.edu.
Alabama Scholar Help Program (ASAP). It is a “need-based program” which supplies help on a restricted foundation to Alabama residents who exhibit a monetary want. College students should file the Free Utility for Federal Scholar Help with a view to obtain consideration for assist from this Program. The State Scholar Help Program determines the quantity to be allotted to every eligible faculty. Scholar help can range in dimension however not exceed $5,000 per yr.
State Vocational Rehabilitation Program. This program supplies instructional help for people with bodily or psychological disabilities. College students should contact the State Vocational Rehabilitation Service Workplace nearest their dwelling for additional data. The Faculty’s Vocational Rehabilitation Certifying Official is situated within the Miles Faculty Monetary Help Workplace. Vocational Rehabilitation advantages are to be coordinated with Title IV pupil assist. When the overall of each assist sources exceeds the faculty’s Title IV pupil assist funds, Title IV assist and any Institutional assist will probably be adjusted.