{"id":3917,"date":"2012-08-12T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=3917"},"modified":"2025-02-28T19:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:24:41","slug":"scholarship-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/academics\/scholarship-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the Social Work Department offers scholarships to help students with expenses and provide an opportunity to demonstrate a focused commitment to a topic or field of social work:<\/p>\n<p>Applications are solicited in the late fall term (usually November). Students are awarded scholarships will be able to use the funds in the following academic year. Department scholarships are open to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current BSW juniors who are on schedule to graduate in spring term of their senior year<\/li>\n<li>Current MSW students (and incoming advanced standing students) who will be enrolled in the next academic year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consideration is given to financial need, academic achievement and community involvement. Some scholarships also have other specific criteria. Preference will be given to those students who have not previously received a social work departmental scholarship award.<\/p>\n<h2>Phyllis M. Baker Memorial Scholarship<\/h2>\n<p>Awarded annually to student(s) majoring in journalism or social work. Awards are based on academic achievement and financial need.<\/p>\n<h2>Arvida Norum Memorial Scholarship<\/h2>\n<p>Awarded annually to undergraduate or graduate students in the Augsburg\u00a0University Department of Social Work. Based on academic achievement and financial need.<\/p>\n<h2>Edwin Yattow Memorial Scholarship<\/h2>\n<p>Awarded annually to a student who is majoring in social work, based upon financial need and academic achievement. Preference will be given to students planning to enter the human services profession.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships are awarded in conjunction with the Augsburg\u00a0University Financial Aid office and the FAFSA program.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Updated February 28, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the Social Work Department offers scholarships to help students with expenses and provide an opportunity to demonstrate a focused commitment to a topic or field of social work: Applications are solicited in the late fall term (usually November). Students are awarded scholarships will be able to use the funds in the following academic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"parent":3920,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51323,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3917\/revisions\/51323"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}