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Returning Students Scholarships and Criteria

A returning student is one who is currently enrolled at FLCC, has completed at least one semester at the College, and will be enrolled at FLCC for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Select a subject to view available scholarships for returning students:

General Interest | Business | Conservation & Horticulture | Criminal Justice | Human Services | Mathematics & Computing | Nursing | Science & Technology | Therapeutic Massage | Tourism | Visual and Performing Arts

 

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GENERAL INTEREST SCHOLARSHIPS

Gary Adams Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $450

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Full-time, female student enrolled in curriculum leading to a career in which women have historically been under-represented
  • Attended a high school in Ontario, Yates, Seneca, Wayne, Livingston, Steuben, or Schuyler county

Association for Women at Finger Lakes Community College (AWFLCC) Scholarship

Amount: $500 full-time (1), $250 part-time (1)

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Female student
  • Completion of at least 12 credits at time of application
  • Demonstrates financial need AND financial independence from family other than spouse
  • 2 reference forms are required from individuals not related to the student; at least one of the letters from FLCC faculty or staff member

Jack L. Bricker Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Full-time student with an interest in political science/history
  • Statement must address political science/history interest by providing specific examples

Dr. Ina Sue Brown Memorial Scholarship

Amount: Cost of one three-credit hour course

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Current part-time student
  • Completion of at least nine credit hours at time of application
  • Demonstrates academic and professional goals in essay
  • Demonstrates financial need

Donald and Jean Burgan Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $1,000

  • Minimum GPA: 2.7
  • Completion of at least one semester at time of application
  • Provides evidence of volunteer community involvement such as church, scouting, fund-raising, or college organizations

Dr. Rebecca Burgess Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $1,000

  • Female student
  • Demonstrates academic excellence
  • Statement must address financial need and commitment to women’s issues
  • Two reference letters are required

Kenneth A. Carlton, Sr. Disabled American Veterans Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Honorably discharged disabled American veteran or descendant OR honorably discharged American veteran or descendant
  • Demonstrates financial need
  • Contact your local VA office to request a copy of Form DD214, page 4. Applicants must provide this page. If descendant of a veteran, must attach to Form DD214 a statement indicating relationship to veteran and have statement signed by veteran

John and Peggy Champaigne Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Completion of six hours in developmental studies course work
  • Demonstrates significant growth academically and socially

CCFL Storefront Pioneers Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Involved in College activities or community service (exclusive of practicum requirements)
  • Demonstrates financial need
  • Involvement in community/college activities and articulate goals for the future

Ed & Gerry Cuony Scholarship

Amount: $1,000

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Preference to residents of Geneva, NY
  • Preference to graduates of Geneva or DeSales High School
  • Preference to students who have completed a minimum of 9 credits of coursework at the FLCC Geneva Center
  • Statement must describe activities and circumstances that demonstrate any or all of the following personal qualities: citizenship, patriotism, teamwork, commitment

FLCC Alumni Association Adult Excellence Scholarship

Amount: $2,000 (over two years)

  • Minimum GPA: 3.4
  • Students must be 24 years old or be married, or have a child
  • Demonstrates involvement in one or more college, community service/athletic activities
  • Minimum 3.4 GPA must be maintained through graduation and student must be transferring to a four-year college to receive the second year’s $1,000 disbursement

FLCC Alumni Association Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Full-time student
  • Minimum GPA: 3.4
  • Involved in one or more of the following: student activities, athletics, or community service (exclusive of practicum requirements)

FLCC Alumni Association Scholarship

Amount: $250 Part-time student

  • Minimum GPA: 3.4
  • Part-time student who has completed minimum of 32 credits at FLCC at time of application
  • Involved in one or more of the following: student activities, athletics, or community service (exclusive of practicum requirements)

Garlock Sealing Technologies Scholarship

Amount varies

  • Full-time incoming student matriculated in any degree program who did not receive the scholarship as an incoming student
  • Preference will be given to applicants who have a parent, guardian, or grandparent who is an employee at/retiree from Garlock
  • Demonstrates financial need

Geneva Campus Center Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 2.0
  • Full- or part-time student who has completed at least 12 credits at the Geneva Center
  • Any major

Ann Hamilton Memorial Scholarship

Amounts vary

  • Student in any major who has been enrolled in developmental reading and writing classes

Dr. Daniel T. Hayes Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.25
  • Full-time student who has completed at least one full-time semester at time of application
  • Demonstrates FLCC involvement in extracurricular activity other than athletics, preferably in a leadership capacity
  • Demonstrates outstanding oral and written skills

Charlotte B. Munson Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $400

  • Minimum GPA: 2.0
  • Demonstrates interest in public service and/or the political process

Phi Theta Kappa Academic Incentive Award

Amount varies

  • GPA between 3.3 and 3.49
  • Full or part-time student who has completed a minimum of 30 credits
  • Involved in college or community service club or activity

Road Service, Inc. Scholarship

Amount: $1,000

  • Major: business or nursing
  • Full-time adult student who is a single parent

S & S Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Major: hotel and resort management, conservation, or horticulture
  • Canandaigua Academy high school graduate
  • Preference given to a veteran and to a student demonstrating financial need

SUNY Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarship

Amount varies

  • Student enrolled in degree program
  • US citizen; New York State resident
  • GPA reflects high academic achievement
  • Statement must demonstrate how student has overcome a disadvantage or impediment to pursuit of a higher education

 

BUSINESS SCHOLARSHIPS

Canandaigua Rotary/Martin Schneider Scholarship

Amount: $1,000

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: business degree

Carol Scharett Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: business degree program
  • Adult student who demonstrates courage by having left a productive career

 

CONSERVATION/HORTICULTURE SCHOLARSHIPS

Broccolo Tree and Lawncare Horticulture Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Major: horticulture
  • Full- or part-time FLCC student who demonstrates academic achievement and experience or interest in the field
  • Must be available for 10 week paid internship

Campus Beautification Scholarship

Amount varies (up to 2)

  • Major: horticulture
  • Full- or part-time student who enrolls in summer practicum and performs 35 hours of the required 75 hours of internship activities on campus during the summer months

IPM & Plant Health Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Demonstrates academic success and commitment to the promotion of sound environmentally-based IPM practices using concrete examples from the student’s education, experiences, and/or public outreach.
  • Student must submit a resume or be available for an interview
  • Resume/statement must address one or more of the following: importance of plant pathology, professional goals for preservation of trees and landscape, scientific background or intent.

Ontario County Master Gardeners Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 2.75
  • Ontario County resident
  • Major: horticulture
  • Full- or part-time student
  • Statement must address student’s motivation for pursuing a horticulture degree

Seneca Landscapes Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Major: horticulture
  • Full- or part-time student who is currently employed in the horticulture industry or working in some other occupation, business, or industry
  • Demonstrates academic success and financial need

Alice C. Southgate Home Bureau Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Major: preference to a student in human services program; nursing and horticulture majors will also be considered
  • United States citizen, residing in Yates or Monroe county (only local counties with a chapter of Home Bureau)
  • Demonstrates financial need
  • Demonstrates interest and commitment to home, community, citizenship and human service

 

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SCHOLARSHIPS

Becker/Strong Memorial Scholarship

(Sponsored by Ontario County Deputy Sheriff's Benevolent Association)

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: criminal justice
  • Ontario County resident

Anthony L. Cecere Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $425

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: criminal justice

 

HUMAN SERVICES SCHOLARSHIPS

Ontario County Women’s Republican Club Scholarship

Amount: $500 (2)

  • Major: liberal arts
  • Female returning to college
  • Demonstrates financial need and articulate career goals

Alice C. Southgate Home Bureau Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Major: preference to a student in human services program; nursing and horticulture majors will also be considered
  • United States citizen, residing in Yates or Monroe county (only local counties with a chapter of Home Bureau)
  • Demonstrates financial need
  • Demonstrates interest and commitment to home, community, citizenship and human service

 

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING SCIENCES SCHOLARSHIP

Brenda S. (Brockman) Beck Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $400

  • Minimum GPA: 2.0
  • Major: related to mathematics or computing sciences
  • Full-time female student
  • Preference to a single parent beginning or returning to her education

 

NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS

Canandaigua Lions Memorial Scholarship (In memory of Barbara Collins)

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Second year nursing student
  • Demonstrates financial need

Mr. and Mrs. Elwood A. (Emma) Garner Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: nursing; enrolled in Nursing 101 at time of application
  • Demonstrates clinical proficiency and dedication to the nursing profession
  • Demonstrates financial need

Mona Horne Memorial Nursing Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Major: nursing
  • Preference given to full-time adult student
  • Minimum of one year of experience working in the health care field

Frances F. MacLeod Legacy Scholarship

Amount: full-time tuition cost

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: currently in pre-nursing program; intending to enroll full-time in the nursing program the following year
  • Demonstrates financial need
  • Statement addresses student's reason for choosing a nursing career

Frances F. MacLeod Memorial Scholarship

Amounts vary

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: nursing
  • Enrolled for at least eight credits for the fall semester
  • Demonstrates financial need
  • Statement addresses student's reason for choosing a nursing career

Jane Milne Mills Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $900

  • Major: nursing
  • Statement addresses commitment to support the nursing profession after FLCC graduation

Nursing Alumni Legacy Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Full- or part-time nursing major
  • Preference given to students continuing their nursing education at a four-year college in the fall
  • Demonstrates financial need
  • Articulate career goals and evidence of leadership skills

The Arianne van Tienhoven Tepper Award

Amount: $160

  • Major: nursing; enrolled in Nursing 101 at time of application
  • Demonstrates scholarship, leadership, and clinical proficiency

Alice C. Southgate Home Bureau Scholarship

Amount: $300

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Major: preference to a student in human services program; nursing and horticulture majors will also be considered
  • United States citizen, residing in Yates or Monroe county (only local counties with a chapter of Home Bureau)
  • Demonstrates financial need
  • Demonstrates interest and commitment to home, community, citizenship and human service

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIPS

FLCC Science/Technology Faculty Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Full- or part-time science/technology major
  • Demonstrates academic potential

Dr. Murray F. Gardner Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $1,000

  • Minimum GPA: 2.5
  • Major: science/technology

Ed Morrell Biology/Biotechnology Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: biology/biotechnology
  • Career intention to teach science at the secondary or post-secondary level
  • Exemplifies the motivation, enthusiasm, integrity, and devotion to a teaching career as exemplified by the 35-year career of Professor Emeritus Morrell

Bill Parham Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $375

  • Major: science/technology
  • Exemplifies integrity, dedication, and scholarship

 

THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE SCHOLARSHIPS

Massage Therapy Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Major: therapeutic massage; enrolled in Shiatsu I at time of application
  • Demonstrates clinical proficiency and dedication to the profession of massage therapy
  • Demonstrates financial need

Melissa Young (Hawk Child Wandering) Massage Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Major: therapeutic massage
  • Main consideration for selection: student has undergone great challenges pursuing his/her degree at FLCC (e.g. death in the family, divorce, loss of job)
  • Secondary considerations: GPA and financial need

 

TOURISM SCHOLARSHIP

A Finger Lakes Visitors Connection, Ontario County, NY Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Major: hotel & resort management, sports & tourism, or tourism management
  • Preference to a student from the Finger Lakes region
  • REQUIRED ESSAY: 250 word essay addressing the key concepts of what you have learned during your first year or semester of study. Include any practical experience you have gained through internships or work in tourism.

 

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS

Catherine J. Kamm Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Taking at least one course in vocal music at FLCC
  • Demonstrates financial need

Dr. Charles J. Meder Scholarship for the Arts

Amount: $500

  • Minimum GPA 2.75
  • Pursuing a career in the arts

John M. Meuser Memorial Scholarship

Amount: $1,000

  • Major: related to visual and performing arts

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