Robert E. Collins Endowed Scholarships

This scholarship will be awarded for the FALL semester.

Awarding Department: Library

Scholarship Intent: Provide scholarships to students who are currently employed by the J. Paul Leonard Library OR who volunteer for the Friends of the Library (FOL). The awards will be disbursed to recipients who are enrolled during the following fall semester.

Criteria:

  • Students must have been employed as a student assistant or volunteer in the J. Paul Leonard Library during both Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, and remain enrolled at SF State for Fall 2025, 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 at the Library.
  • Deadline is April 30, 2025.

In addition, applicants must include two short essays answering the following questions:

  1. How does your work as a student assistant or FOL volunteer 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 essays of not more than 250 words each. Please use a standard 12-point font. 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: Melanie Smith
  • Campus Address: Library 120A
  • Street Address: 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, California 94132-4011
  • Phone Number: (415) 338-6262 or (415) 338-1620
  • Email: fol@sfsu.edu or smithms@sfsu.edu
  • Web page: Library/Friends of the Library
  • Amount of Award: $2,000.00
  • Number of Awards: 5

Award
$2,000.00
Deadline
04/30/2025
Supplemental Questions
  1. Upload a copy of your current resume or CV
  2. Upload a current transcript unless continuing SF State graduate student
  3. Letter of Recommendation - different from first LOR
  4. Upload 250-word 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.