Robert E. Collins Endowed Scholarships

This scholarship will be awarded for the FALL semester.

Awarding Department: Library

Scholarship Intent: Provide scholarship to students who are currently employed by the Library for at least one semester, including the preceding Fall semester, or who volunteer for the Friends of the Library (FOL). The awards will be dispersed to recipients who are enrolled in the following Fall semester.

Criteria:

  • Students must be employed as a student assistant or volunteer in the J. Paul Leonard Library during both Fall 2023 and Spring 2024, and remain enrolled at SF State for the following fall semester, when the awards will be disbursed.
  • Students must complete an application including their CV or resume, transcripts, and a letter of recommendation from their supervisor in the J. Paul Leonard Library.

In addition, applicants must include essays answering each of the following questions:

  1. How does your work as an employee (student assistant) in the J. Paul Leonard Library positively affect your academic progress and/or your connection to the campus?
  2. Identify a book that you have read that was not part of any class, and explain how it affected you.

Supplemental essays should be well-written, work-processed essays of not more than 250 words each. Please use 12-point. For more information about the criteria for evaluating applications, please see the FOL website at library.sfsu.edu/fol

Past recipients of the Collins Scholarships are not eligible to apply. However, students who applied before but did not receive the award are welcome to apply again.

  • Major: Any
  • Class Level: Undergrad: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, & Masters/MFA
  • Enrollment Status: Continuing SF State student
  • Enrollment Requirement: Undergrad: 6 Units
  • Financial Need as determined by the FAFSA and/or CA Dream App: No
  • Citizenship: Any
  • Minimum GPA: Undergrad: 2.5, Grad: 3.0
  • Contact Person: Julie Vaquilar
  • Campus Address: Library 120A
  • Street Address: 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, California 94132-4011
  • Phone Number: (415) 338-6262
  • Email: fol@sfsu.edu
  • Web page: Library/Friends of the Library
  • Amount of Award: $2,000.00
  • Number of Awards: 5

Award
$2,000.00
Deadline
04/30/2024
Supplemental Questions
  1. Upload a copy of current resume or c.v.
  2. Upload a current transcript unless continuing SF State graduate student
  3. Letter of Recommendation - different from first LOR
  4. Upload essay responses to each of the following questions. A) How does your work in the Library positively affect your academic progress and/or your connection to the campus? and B) Identify a book that you have read that was not part of any class, and explain how it affected you.