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Diverse and welcoming, The Illinois Club draws its membership from all areas of the University
and the surrounding community. Since 1915, The Illinois Club has provided financial support
to worthy undergraduate students. This year, we will be awarding the following scholarships:
- Humanities and Social Sciences Award of $4,000
- Engineering and Science Award of $4,000
- Global Focus Award of $4,000
- Isabelle Purnell Education Award of $4,000
- The Judith Life Ikenberry Fine Arts Award of $4,500
General Eligibility
The Illinois Club is offering undergraduate scholarships that will be awarded for the 2023-2024 academic year.
You must be an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
have earned at least 60 credit hours by the beginning of the Spring 2023 semester,
and graduate no earlier than December 2023. A minimum GPA of 3.0 at both
the time of application and winning of award is also required.
Scholarship Descriptions
Global Focus Award
Open to any major. Applicants must have international experience or an
internationally focused program of study. For example: second-language study,
study abroad, internships or volunteering abroad, international career plans.
Applicants must demonstrate how their internationally focused work and/or volunteer plans
will make a difference in the world.
Humanities and Social Sciences Award
Open to all students majoring or minoring in the Humanities or Social Sciences.
Applicants must demonstrate the benefits that studying the Humanities or the Social Sciences
provides to themselves and their community. Majors/minors that may apply for the Humanities
and Social Sciences Award include English; Philosophy; Religion; Comparative Literature;
Cinema Studies; History; Classics; Art History; Communication; Psychology; Anthropology;
Musicology; Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication;
Human Development and Family Studies; Agricultural and Consumer Economics;
all foreign languages; all ethnic studies; all Business majors and minors;
and undergraduates in the I-School.
Engineering and Science Award
Open to all students majoring or minoring in the STEM fields, including Animal Sciences,
Crop Sciences, and Computer Science + Crop Science. Applicants must demonstrate
the benefits that studying Science, Mathematics, Technology, Engineering,
or Agricultural Sciences provides to themselves and their community.
Isabelle Purnell Education Award
Open to those earning a Secondary Education Certificate or College of Education majors.
Applicants must demonstrate how they hope to make a difference in the classroom
and in students' lives.
Judith Life Ikenberry Award
Open to any major in the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Applicants must demonstrate
how their art impacts their lives and the world and what they hope to accomplish
with their art. The Ikenberry scholarship is generally given to a student who plans
to make a living as a working/performing artist (painter, sculptor, musician, dancer, actor).
If you are an applied artist (architect, urban planner, industrial designer, etc.),
we encourage you to write your essay toward one of our other scholarships.
Applications Open: September 6, 2022
Application Deadline: 5 PM, October 15, 2022
To apply for these scholarships, please complete the application at
go.illinois.edu/TICScholarshipApplication
Note: Applications will NOT be accepted after the deadline.
It is strongly recommended that you allow yourself adequate time to
navigate the application, upload your documents,
and communicate your questions to the committee
well in advance of the final hour.
Scholarship Committee for 2022-2023
Scholarship Chair: Matthew Macomber
Assistant Scholarship Chair: Kathy Valdés
Committee:
Carl Altstetter, Sandy Camargo, Lori Choquette, Mary Dugan, Anne Heiles, Joyce Wright
Are you interested in joining a diverse and welcoming committee directly involved
with helping UI students? If so, the Illinois Club Scholarship Committee is for you!
Our scholarships are funded by the Illinois Club, through bequests
and direct contributions by our members.
A great challenge is awaiting you this upcoming academic year!
If interested in helping us with this important work, please contact Matthew Macomber,
the chair of the Scholarship Committee at
scholarship@theillinoisclub.org.
Scholarship Winners 2020-2021
Read about our scholarship award winners!
Scholarship Award Ceremony March 6, 2021
Watch our event video, on Mediaspace
Scholarship Winners 2019-2020
And what happened to last year's winners?
Please visit
https://with.illinois.edu/springupdate21/?id=Illinois+Club
with the password "illini" and page down to see how The Illinois Club has made a difference.
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