D.
Scholarships
It’s
regrettable that this section of the handbook is so
slim, but its importance to you and your colleagues demands that the
subject be
given a proper highlighting by appearing in its own section.
Seattle
Pacific attempts to meet the financial need of its
undergraduate students through a combination package of
scholarships, grants,
loans and employment opportunities.
Obviously the typical student’s attention is
focused immediately on
scholarships and grants, since they require no payback or exchange of
labor.
Scholarships
are distinctive among student financial aid
considerations in that they bear an honorific connotation as well as
remuneration. The
recipient is deemed
exceptional in scholarship, personal attributes, and talent; enough so
that
special recognition is made by assigning funding to the continuing
education of
the individual as an investment in a promising future. In many ways the honor of
a scholarship award
is as important as the financial grant itself.
In
the case of Theatre, the department has the privilege of
supervising two discrete kinds of scholarships:
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Scholarships
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