Six students, including five women and two non-traditional students age 30 or older, will benefit next fall from $1,000 scholarships awarded by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Education and Career Transition.
Undergraduates Ricki B. Moseley, Rhonda Kaye Scott, Emily M. Utz and Shawna M. Ward won scholarships, along with non-traditional students Christina S. Manning-Lebek and Kazuhiko Yokota. Each recipient was chosen based on his or her biographical application essay, grade-point average and amount of academic financial need.
Moseley and Ward both hope to finish undergraduate degrees and move on to medical school. Scott and Manning-Lebek are completing fine arts degrees, with double majors in humanities and English, respectively. Manning-Lebek wants to become an art professor, and Scott intends to teach and work with children in rural areas.Ìý
Yokota and Utz are both pursuing careers in international development. Utz plans to eventually create an international development organization based on the knowledge and experience of women around the world. Yokota, the lone male scholarship recipient, is working on a Ph.D. in economics and plans to seek a job doing research for or policymaking involving developing countries.
Scholarship applications were solicited from students in three categories: undergraduate women, graduate women, and male and female students 30 years of age and older.
To be considered, applicants must have a 3.5 grade-point average or higher. Non-traditional students over 30 must have a minimum GPA of 3.0. The fall 2002 scholarship winners all had GPAs of 3.6 or higher.
Applicants must be enrolled full-time during the semester they wish to receive an award, and must already have a minimum of 12 credit hours completed on the CU-Boulder campus.
The CECT program and scholarship is run within the office of Counseling and Psychological Services: A Multicultural Center. The scholarship selection committee includes staff from counseling services and the Women's Resource Center.
Donors established the scholarships in the 1960s to support non-traditional, older female students who were returning to college, according to Sharon Campbell of counseling services. The campus women's center that originally selected the scholarship winners was eventually merged with the office of Counseling and Psychological Services: A Multicultural Center.