Shoulder to Shoulder College Counseling & Advocacy Scholarship Endowment

Scholarship Award Period: This scholarship will be awarded for the SPRING semestser

• Awarding Department: Counseling
• Scholarship Intent: This scholarship is intended to support students who demonstration a commitment to serving student groups with a history of significant marginalization in higher education such as formerly incarcerated students, undocumented students, Native American, Alaska Native, and Pacific Island students, former foster youth, long-term housing instability, and other groups. Eligible applicants must be incoming and continuing graduate students in Department of Counseling programs with a Specialization in College Counseling or Emphasis in College Counseling, enrolled in a minimum of six units during both the semesters of application and award disbursement. Priority will be given to students enrolled in the MS Counseling with a Specialization in College Counseling and secondary consideration will be given to students with an Emphasis in College Counseling. Incoming first-year students to the program should have an undergraduate GPA of 3.25 or higher and continuing students in the program should have a GPA of 3.0 or higher. The scholarship will be awarded in the fall and disbursed in the spring of each year.
• Criteria: Distributions to students in good academic standing and who meet the following criteria:
  1. Incoming and continuing graduate students in Department of Counseling programs with a Specialization in College Counseling or Emphasis in College Counseling, enrolled in a minimum of six units during both the semesters of application and award disbursement. Priority will be given to students enrolled in the MS Counseling with a Specialization in College Counseling and secondary consideration will be given to students with an Emphasis in College Counseling.
  2. Incoming first-year students to the program should have an undergraduate GPA of 3.25 or higher and continuing students in the program should have a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
  3. Demonstrated commitment to serving student groups with a history of significant marginalization in higher education such as formerly incarcerated students, undocumented students, Native American, Alaska Native, and Pacific Island students, former foster youth, long-term housing instability, and other groups.
• Major: Multiple: Priority given to MS Counseling-Specialization in College Counseling; Secondary consideration given to MS Counseling-Emphasis in College Counseling (with Specialization could be Career Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Marriage, Family and Child Counseling, and School Counseling)
• Class Level: Grad: Masters/MFA
• Enrollment Status: Continuing SF State student and continuing entering students.
• Enrollment Requirement: Grad: 6UNITS
• Financial Need as determined by the FAFSA and/or CA Dream App: No.
• Citizenship: Any.
• GPA: Grad: 3.0
• Contact Person: Julie Chronister
• Campus Address: BH 524
• Street Address: 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, California 94132
• Phone Number: (415) 338-2049
• Email: jchronis@sfsu.edu
• Web page: Counseling
• Amount of Award: Varies
• Number of Awards: Varies