Scholarships

Department of Homeland Security Education Programs

to http://www.orau.gov/dhsed/2009pages/scholarship.html
for more information and applications.

The Guild of the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts

Criteria:

  • Have attended an accredited college or university for two semesters
  • Be enrolled full-time
  • Must have a C+ or better in the previous semester
  • Must have plans to move into the performing arts arena or teaching in one of the listed performing arts areas

Deadline: Must be submitted 60 days prior to the semester for which you are applying

Location: NMSU Alamogordo Financial Aid Office

Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

Go to https://scholarships.hacu.net/applications/applicants/ for more information and applications

Hispanic College Fund

Go to http://www.hispanicfund.org/scholarships/ for more information and applications

Larry Albers Nursing Scholarship

Criteria:

  • Must be a nursing student enrolled at NMSU Alamogordo
  • Attach a minimum of two letters of recommendation

Deadline: Available throughout the year

Location: NMSU Alamogordo Financial Aid Office

Lewis Jordan Music Scholarship

Amount: Tuition for class

Criteria:

  • Must be enrolled or planning to enroll in Music 160 or 161
  • Must maintain a 3.0 GPA while in the class

Location: NMSU Alamogordo Financial Aid Office

Office of Navajo Nation Scholarship

To apply, students go to the Office of Navajo Nation Scholarship (ONNSFA) website (www.onnsfa.org) and click on the “I want to Apply Online” link then “Online Forms.”  There students will see the 3 types of applications:  Full0time, Part-time, and Teacher Education Program.  The rest of the documents such as the Letter of Admissions, Financial Needs Analysis (FNA), Certificate of Navajo Indian Blood (CIS), official transcripts from all previous institutions and/or a graduation degree checklist, and course registration can be sent by mail, faxed or emailed in a PDF form to ONNSFA.

P.E.O Scholarship

Amount: $500

Criteria:

  • Must be a women
  • Must be a returning student who has not attended college for at least one semester
  • Must be a degree seeking student
  • Must be enrolled in no fewer than six semester hours.  These can be online classes
  • Must be able to address financial needs
  • Must have a GPA of 2.5 or higher
  • Must have completed 12 hours of college credit

Recipient must acknowledge the scholarship and will be a guest of honor at a fall luncheon.  Successful recipient will be able to apply for a $500 spring semester scholarship

Location: For more informatio or to pick up an application, call Karen Hendrickson at 437-3054.  Call between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Perry Taylor Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $500

Critertia:

  • Must be a Veteran of the United States Armed Forces
  • Must have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan after September 11, 2001
  • Must be admitted to NMSU Alamogordo
  • Must attend at least one class at Alamogordo campus in the Fall 2009 semester
  • Must have graduated high school or completed GED
  • Must attach copy of DD 214 to application
  • Must attach letter of recommendation (by someone who knows you well)
  • Must attach a student essay (no more than two pages, no less than one paragraph)

Deadline:  July 31st, 2009

Location:  NMSU Alamogordo Financial Aid Office

Shirley Cunico Memorial Nursing Scholarship

Amount: $400 per semester for four semesters

Criteria:

  • Must be enrolled in and accepted into the Nursing Program
  • Preference given to a new entering semester Nursing student
  • Must have a minimum 2.5 cumulative NMSU grade point average and maintain that GPA to renew scholarship

Deadline: July 31, 2009 For 2009/2010

Location: NMSU Alamogordo Financial Aid Office

Sussman-Miller Educational Assistance Program

Amount: Varies between $500 and $3000

Criteria:

  • Attend a college or university full-time (or be a graduating high school senior)
  • Available statewide
  • Must be a federal financial aid recipient

Deadlines: There are 3 different ones

  • High school students who will attend out of state, or in-state private, not-for-profit schools April 24, 2009
  • High school students who will attend New Mexico State public schools, June 26, 2009
  • Current undergraduates, June 26, 2009

Location: www.albuquerquefoundation.org

Transfer Tuition Shcolarship

Amount: Tuition and fees for a new entering transfer student

Criteria: Students transferring from a New Mexico branch, community, or junior college with between 30 to 90 total credits attempted at all institutions and a mimimum GPA of 3.5.  Must be aNew Mexico resident.

Renewable: 3.5 cumulative NMSU GPA and 12 credit hours earned each semester.  Scholarship award is for a maxmum of four semesters.  For top consideration, a scholaship application is required.

This scholarship is not a part of the general scholarship application.

Contact: Main campus for more information at (575) 646-4105

Vietnam Veterans Scholarship

Amount: Tuition, required fees, and books not to exceed an amount equal to the highest resident tuition charged by a state institution. ($1520.00 tuition, $500.00 books per year)

Critertia:

  • Must have Honorable Discharge
  • Must have established residency in New Mexico for a minimuim of ten years
  • Must have been awarded the vietnam campaign, or vietname Service Medal
  • Must plan to attend a state supported school, i.e. state universities, community colleges, etc.

Qualificationsl for children of deceased veterans scholarship:

  1. Veteran of the Armed Forces must have been a resident of New Mexico at the original time of entry into the United States Armed Forces.
    a. Must have been in during a period of armed conflict
    b. Must have been killed in action or as a result of such action
  2. National Guard Members-Must have been killed while on active duty
  3. State Police Officers-Must have been killed while on active duty
  4. Child must be between the ages of 16 and 26
  5. Child must be enrolled in a state supported school

Location: NMSU Alamogordo Financial Aid Office and at http://www.dvs.state.nm.us/benefits.html