{"id":15437,"date":"2025-01-06T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=15437"},"modified":"2024-12-26T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T23:31:31","slug":"american-indian-endowed-scholarship-awards-due-mar-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2025\/01\/american-indian-endowed-scholarship-awards-due-mar-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"American Indian Endowed Scholarship Awards (due Mar 3rd)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MSW students, applications are available now to apply for the 2025-2026 American Indian Endowed Scholarship (AIES) awards. The Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC) will accept signed and completed applications that are postmarked by March 3, 2025. Applications must be accompanied with all required attachments. There is a priority for upper-division and graduate-level students, however, all qualified applicants are considered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below are details and instructions for application submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find &amp; print application materials and documentations here: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsac.wa.gov\/american-indian-endowed-scholarship\">American Indian Endowed Scholarship | WSAC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>To be eligible, an applicant must:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Have close social and cultural ties to an American Indian tribe or community in Washington state<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intend to use his or her education to benefit the American Indian community in this state<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be enrolled full-time for 2025-26, beginning fall term, at a participating college or university in-state<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have demonstrated financial need (as determined by the college financial aid office, per FAFSA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be a Washington state resident<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have not received a total of five years of this scholarship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IMPORTANT: Late or incomplete applications will not be reviewed by the selection committee.<br>A selection committee composed of representatives from the American Indian community in-state will review and score the applications. The number of scholarships and amounts awarded are based on an evaluation of the interest earnings available in the endowment. Scholarships generally range between $500 to $2,000 each for the academic year. Finalists are announced in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mail the signed application, with required attachments, postmarked by March 3, 2025, to:<\/strong><br>American Indian Endowed Scholarship Program<br>Washington Student Achievement Council<br>PO Box 43430, Olympia, WA 98504-3430 (use PO Box if mailing US Postal Service delivery)<br>917 Lakeridge Way SW, Olympia, WA 98502 (use street address if via UPS or FedEx delivery)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For inquiries, call 360.485.1311 or email <a href=\"mailto:aies@wsac.wa.gov\">aies@wsac.wa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSW students, applications are available now to apply for the 2025-2026 American Indian Endowed Scholarship (AIES) awards. The Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC) will accept signed and completed applications that are postmarked by March 3, 2025. Applications must be accompanied with all required attachments. There is a priority for upper-division and graduate-level students, however, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15438,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions\/15438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}