COHP108 Student Scholarship Award Guidelines - Academic Policy

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COHP108 Student Scholarship Award Guidelines – Academic Policy

No./Title: COHP108 Student Scholarship Award Guidelines	Resp. Office: STUDENT AFFAIRS Approval Body: College Council	Effective Date: March 2019
Category: Student	Last Review: March 2019	Next Review: March 2022
Contact: Hassan A Aziz Student Affairs	 901.448.3164	 habdelaz@uthsc.edu
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Introduction

The College of Health Professions (COHP) provides information about student scholarships to all students on the college website as well as in the UTHSC catalog. Several scholarships are offered to students in the College of Health Professions in collaboration with the Office of Financial Aid. Most of the scholarships are for entry-level students and students enrolled in post professional degree programs are not eligible to receive these scholarships.

Procedure

Guidelines for Departmental Scholarship Committees.

Each academic program that offers scholarships will have a scholarship committee, the members of which are named by the department chair on an annual basis. Scholarship selection committees are appointed by the department chair and are typically comprised of departmental faculty and may include external members with interest in the program. The exception to this is when the composition of the selection committee is outlined by the “Scholarship Memorandum of Agreement and Administrative Provisions” for each endowed scholarship.
Scholarship committees will meet formally at least once each year to select scholarship recipients for both incoming and existing students. Additional meetings may be conducted as needed.
Accurate records of the selection process must be maintained in a secure manner:
1. Meeting minutes with attendance roster;
2. Written documentation supporting the selection based upon criteria dictated by individual scholarship guidelines;
3. For departmental or programmatic endowed scholarships in which financial need is a criterion, there should be documentation of the information used in the selection process, such as a roster of eligible students showing unmet financial need;
4. A copy of the “Scholarship Memorandum of Agreement and Administrative Provisions” for each endowed scholarship awarded by COHP programs. This is the document that was approved when the scholarship was established.
5. If the amount awarded is to be selected by the Office of Financial Aid, the department should contact that office to obtain the amount of the award prior to submitting their spreadsheet to the assistant/associate dean.
6. If the award is an in-house scholarship (i.e. Ann Craig awarded by Physical Therapy), the amount available to award is obtained by the department chair by viewing the account balance in IRIS.
7. Upon receiving the scholarship spreadsheet from the department chair, a congratulatory letter from the dean will be emailed to the student(s). The letter(s) will be copied to the program director/chair of the department awarding the scholarship. The assistant/associate dean for student affairs will forward the names and amounts for scholarship recipients to the Office of Financial Aid.