Diversity Office Virtual Library

Scholarship Information

 

• Minorities - College Scholarships, Graduate Fellowships, Research Internships - College scholarships, graduate fellowships and grants for Hispanics, Latinos, Mexican Americans, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, South and Central Americans, African Americans, Native Alaskans, Aleuts, Inuit, Eskimos, Native Americans, Native Pacific Islanders, Hawaiians, Polynesians or Micronesians
  
  
• Multicultural Student Scholarships – PDF file of general and specific “minority” scholarship in a wide variety of areas, with descriptions.
  
  
• Pride Foundation Scholarship Fund – over 50 different scholarships for LGBT students as well as straight ally or questioning students and students of LGBT parents
  
  
• College Scholarships for Minorities – In essay form with links, scholarships under the categories of Asian, Black, Hispanic, Interracial, LGBT, Native American, Women
  
  
• Gates Millennium Scholarships -  promotes academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for outstanding minority students with significant financial need to reach their highest potential

 

General Student Concerns

 

• The Leadership Conference Student Activist Network – National Civil and Human Rights Coalition Student Page (formerly student activist organization). Includes student profiles, videos, and organizing resources. 
  
  
• Council for Opportunity in Education - Includes scholarship listings, bulletin board with conferences, info for TRIO students
  
  
• Diversity Web: An Interactive Resource Hub for Higher Education - Student Development – Reports and resources concerning recruitment, retention and mentoring; identity and intellectual development; student leadership and campus activism; inter/intra group relations; and peer education and diversity training.
  
  
• American Friends Service Committee Youth Programs – Youth programs develop youth leadership in order to enhance movements for justice, peace and the empowerment of oppressed peoples as well as build bridges of understanding and active alliances among young people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
  
  
• Campus Activism – Extensive interactive website that can be used to start a campaign, share activism resources, publicize events, and build networks or you can join an existing campaign, get resources, learn about upcoming activist events, and let people find you.
  
  
• Free Exchange on Campus - The Free Exchange on Campus Campaign is a coalition of faculty, student, and civil rights organizations working together to preserve the free exchange of ideas on college campuses.
  
  
• Future 5000 - Directory of youth organizations working for justice across all 50 states. 700+ organizations listed with their own profile describing their work in one of four Sectors of Youth Organizing: campus, community, civic engagement, and cultural.
  
  
• United States Student Organization -  Student-led organization representing over 4 million students at over 400 campuses across the nation; develops current and future leaders and amplifies the student voice at the local, state, and national levels by mobilizing grassroots power to win concrete victories on student issues.