Scholarships for Educators

Chris Larsen Scholarship Fund

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide financial assistance in programs at SFSU which lead to a teaching, specialist, or service credential. Current and prospective students in the following Master’s degree concentrations are also eligible to apply.
• Criteria: Credential or MA student in GCOE.

Crumpton, Baxter, Bonham Memorial Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide assistance to students in Education programs at SFSU which lead to a teaching, specialist, or service credential.
• Criteria: Degree concentrations eligible to apply: Elementary Education, Language & Literacy, Math Education, Early Childhood Education, Adult Education, Secondary Education, Equity and Social Justice, Special Interest, Ed Admin, Instructional Technologies, Jt. Doc in SPED, Special Education, Communicative Disorders, EDD in Educational Leadership.

Irvin W. and Velma C. Hartman Family Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall
• Scholarship Intent: To provide for graduate and credential student scholarships in the Graduate College of Education (GCOE) at San Francisco State University.
• Criteria: Preference given to students who plan to pursue a teaching career.

Karl Richard Lane Scholarship

• Award: $4,000
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: Provide financial assistance to teacher credential candidates and MA candidates in the College of Education.

The Golden State Teacher Grant Program

• Criteria: The Golden State Teacher Grant Program (GSTG) awards up to $20,000 to students currently enrolled in a professional preparation program approved by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) and working towards earning their preliminary teaching or pupil personnel services credential.
  • Golden State Teacher Grant Program (GSTG) Frequently Asked Questions
  • Contact: Stephanie Cantarero scantarero@sfsu.edu
  • For more information, visit the California Student Aid Commission website

Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant

• Criteria: The TEACH Grant Program provides grants of up to $4,000 a year to students who are completing or plan to complete course work needed to begin a career in teaching. A Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant is different from other federal student grants because it requires you agree to complete a teaching service obligation as a condition for receiving the grant, and if you don't complete the service obligation, the TEACH Grant will be converted to a loan that you must repay, with interest.
  • For more information about TEACH Grants, visit the Federal Student Aid website

Visit the San Francisco State University scholarship website (Academic Works) to learn more, search and apply for the scholarships listed.

Alexandra Laboutin Bannon Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide financial support to students in the Departments of Elementary or Secondary Education who demonstrate financial need and are in good academic standing. Preference will be given to applicants who exemplify a passion for teaching and education.
• Criteria:
  • Apply upon recommendation by faculty from Elementary or Secondary Education.
  • Financial need determined by written statement.
  • Statement describing interest and goals in the field of education.

Alpha Delta Kappa Scholarship

• Disbursement Period: Fall
• Scholarship Intent: To promote the advancement of Education by providing scholarships to selected students who plan to become teachers in our California schools.
• Criteria: Credential students are eligible to apply. Students who will be student teaching during the Spring semester.

Bower Friend Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall
• Scholarship Intent: To provide 2 scholarships for students in the Graduate College of Education’s teacher credential programs.
• Criteria: Students in Multiple, Single or Education Specialist Credential programs may apply. Half-time enrollment required.

Donna J. Cuneo Memorial Scholarship

• Award: $500
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To support teaching credential candidates in Elementary, Secondary, and/or Special education.
• Criteria: Must identify teaching goals.

George Moscone Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To assist needy students in the School of Education pursuing a career in teaching Creative Arts.
• Criteria:
  • Must plan to teach in creative arts or preference to those who will teach creative arts.
  • Financial need.

Visit the San Francisco State University scholarship website (Academic Works) to learn more, search and apply for the scholarships listed.

The EdD In Educational Leadership Program Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Academic Year
• Scholarship Intent: The intent of this scholarship is to provide support for emerging and innovative scholar-practitioners focused on social justice.
• Criteria:
  • This scholarship is available only to doctoral students enrolled full time in SF States' EdD in Educational Leadership program.
  • Applications will be evaluated on the basis of three criteria:
    • Significance of the work on a current policy or program.
    • Expected or accomplished impacts on equity and social justice reforms.
    • Clarity of achieved project.

Vanson Nguyen and Cheryl Quan Scholarship

• Award: up to $5,000
• Disbursement Period: Fall
• Scholarship Intent: To provide an annual award to a student in the Graduate College of Education Educational Doctorate Program who is currently enrolled and has demonstrated financial need substantiated by written statement; preference to candidates who also demonstrate they work/worked with marginalized populations or program candidate whose research involves critical perspectives.
• Criteria:
  • Financial need substantiated via written statement.
  • Preference given to: a. candidates who work/worked with marginalized populations b. candidates whose research involves critical perspectives.

Visit the San Francisco State University scholarship website (Academic Works) to learn more, search and apply for the scholarships listed.

The Cahill Scholarship

• Award: amount equal to half-time or full-time enrollment
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide assistance to students pursuing a degree in Elementary Education or undergraduate and credential students with a goal of becoming elementary school teachers. Students must be enrolled half-time or full-time in order to receive this scholarship. Half-time enrollment for Credential = 6 units/ MA = 4 units; Full-time enrollment for Credential = 12 units/ MA = 8 units.
• Criteria: Preference given to students from single parent families.

Elementary Education Scholarship Fund

• Award: $1,500
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide assistance to students pursuing a degree in Elementary Education or undergraduate and credential students with a goal of becoming elementary school teachers. Students must be enrolled half-time or full-time in order to receive this scholarship. Half-time enrollment for Credential = 6 units/ MA = 4 units; Full-time enrollment for Credential = 12 units/ MA = 8 units.
• Criteria: Preference given to students from single parent families.

Edith P. Merritt Memorial Endowed Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: Scholarship endowment seeks to preserve and celebrate Edith Merritt’s legacy of promoting teacher education and the next generation of early childhood and elementary education teachers by supporting students in all credential and master’s degree programs in the Department of Elementary Education.
• Criteria: Student must be at least one semester in to a Masters or Credential program in the Department of Elementary Education.

Margaret Lynch Memorial Scholarship

• Award: $500
• Disbursement Period: Spring
• Scholarship Intent: For students with a commitment to a profession relating to reading.
• Criteria: Commitment to profession related to the teaching of reading.

Masters in Early Childhood Education Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall
• Scholarship Intent: To provide an annual award to GCOE students who are enrolled in the MA program in Early Childhood Education.

Robert and Elizabeth Hemphill Scholarship

• Award: $3,000
• Disbursement Period: Spring
• Scholarship Intent: Provide support to a student in the Equity, Leadership Studies, & Instructional Technologies Department with preferences to a student in the Equity and Social Justice, Special Interest and Adult Education concentrations.

Shields Family Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall
• Scholarship Intent: To support a student in the Single Subject Credential Program in the Graduate College of Education at San Francisco State University.
• Criteria:
  • Academic standing in the program
  • Student Teaching
  • Indication of financial need to be determined by department during nomination process

Dominic C. Nosenzo Special Education Scholarship

• Award: $2,500
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide financial assistance to credential, Masters and Doctoral students entering or continuing in the field of Special Education.

Dorothy B. Lucas Special Education Scholarship

• Award: $2,500
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To support students enrolled in special education programs.
• Criteria: Classified in Education Specialist Credential or Special Education graduate program.

Dorothy Misbach Fund for Visually Impaired Teacher Preparation

• Award: $1,000 or $2,000
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: Financial support for students admitted to, and enrolled in, the Education Specialist Credential for Visual Impairments, and for Joint Doctoral, Ph.D. candidates, studying in the area of visual impairments.
• Criteria: Ph.D. Joint Doctoral Program students studying in the Visual Impairment area are eligible to apply. To continue receiving an award in semesters 2-4, student must demonstrate a gpa of 3.5. California residency.

Early Childhood Special Education Scholarship

• Award: $2,500
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide financial support for students admitted to, and enrolled in, the Education Specialist Credential for Early Childhood Special Education, and for Joint Doctoral, Ph.D. candidates, studying in the area of Early Childhood Special Education.
• Criteria:
  • Admitted to, or enrolled in the Education Specialist Credential for Early Childhood Special Education or the Joint Doctoral, Ph.D. candidates, studying in the area of Early Childhood Special Education
  • Financial need determined by written statement
  • Preference given to candidates who work/worked with marginalized populations and demonstrates a commitment to equitable and inclusive learning environments

Flora R. Walter Scholarship

• Award: $2,200
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To support students in the Department of Special Education, including Credential, MA, and Joint Doctoral Program.
• Criteria: Evidence of academic distinction or financial need based on personal statement.

Friends of Teachers VI & O&M

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide financial support to students currently enrolled in either the program in Visual Impairments (TVI) or program in Orientation and Mobility (O&M).

Louise M. Mangini Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To support scholarships for students enrolled in Special Education with priority given to those pursuing the MA in Education, Special Education in any emphasis.

Jane Wheeler-Dubin Memorial Scholarship

• Award: $1,000
• Disbursement Period: Spring
• Scholarship Intent: Annual scholarship for graduate students (credential, MA, or doctorate) in Special Education Department.
• Criteria: Preference given to students working with individuals with Spina Bifida or other physical ailments. Student must be student teaching semester of award. Students must have financial need; have a gpa 3.5 or greater.

Mabel Whitehead Special Education Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: Award is provided to pay for educational expenses, to students enrolled in the Master of Arts in Special Education.
• Criteria: Priority will be given to students who have demonstrated strong overall goals for success in the program, and excellence of achievement from letters. Financial need is not a primary factor.

Special Education Scholarship Fund

• Award: $1,000
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring

Hall Family Scholarship

• Award: varies
• Disbursement Period: Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide financial support to students in the Department of Special Education and the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.

AER William and Dorothy Ferrell Scholarship

• Award: $1,000
• Disbursement Period: Late Spring / every other year in evwen years (2 people accepted)
• Scholarship Intent: For individuals continuing their education in the field of providing services to the blind and visually impaired.
• Criteria: For individuals who are legally blind and studying for a career in the field of services to persons who are blind or visually impaired.

CTEBVI Katie Sibert Scholarship

• Award: $1,000-$6,000
• Disbursement Period: Yearly
• Scholarship Intent: To foster the acquisition and improvement of skills necessary to provide high quality education opportunities to blind and visually impaired students.
• Criteria: Offered to transcribers and educators.

National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Scholarships

• Award: $8,000
• Disbursement Period: Yearly, announced every Spring
• Scholarship Intent: Support legally blind students enrolled in post-secondary program at an acredited college univiersity.
• Criteria: Must be legally blind, residing in the US and 18 years or older, and enrolled in a post-secondary course of study degree program.

Dale M. Schoettler Scholarship

• Award: $10,000
• Disbursement Period: Yearly
• Scholarship Intent: Assist visually impaired students enrolled in a CSU
• Criteria: Minimum GPA 2.8, enrolled in 6.1 units, CSU undergraduate or graduate, visually impaired.

American Foundation for the Blind: Other Scholarships and Grants for VI Students

• Award: $2,000-$7,500
• Disbursement Period: Yearly
• Scholarship Intent: Provide financial support each year to students who are blind or have low vision.
• Criteria: Visually impaired students

EduMed: Scholarships & Resources for Students with Visual Disabilities

• Award: Varies
• Disbursement Period: Yearly
• Scholarship Intent: Help students with vision loss or impairment.
• Criteria: Students with Visual Disabilities

Visit the San Francisco State University scholarship website (Academic Works) to learn more, search and apply for the scholarships listed.

Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Scholarship

• Award: $1,000
• Disbursement Period: Fall and Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide assistance to students in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Funds to be awarded as scholarships to assist students with educational expenses or to fund attendance at annual Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Conferences to present student research.
• Criteria:
  • Graduate students must be attending and presenting at a conference, or writing a thesis.
  • Undergraduate students must be attending professional conference.
  • Students must have a 3.7 GPA.
  • Students must submit an essay of no more than 500 words explaining why they are applying for the scholarship.

Hall Family Scholarship

• Award: Varies
• Disbursement Period: Spring
• Scholarship Intent: To provide assistance to students in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Funds to be awarded as scholarships to assist students with educational expenses or to fund attendance at annual Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Conferences to present student research.
• Criteria:
  • Graduate students must be attending and presenting at a conference, or writing a thesis.
  • Undergraduate students must be attending professional conference.
  • Students must have a 3.7 GPA.
  • Students must submit an essay of no more than 500 words explaining why they are applying for the scholarship.

Visit the San Francisco State University scholarship website (Academic Works) to learn more, search and apply for the scholarships listed.

Credential Students

Pell Grant:

This Federal grant was only available to undergraduate students, but has recently (two years now) been extended to credential students. For eligibility to be determined, credential students need to complete the FAFSA. It is recommended that you apply early in the year (Jan-Mar) for the following academic year so your eligibility can be determined for this grant while funds are available.

College of Education Scholarship Opportunities:

We award over $60,000 in scholarships per semester ranging from $500 to $3000 for students in the Graduate College of Education.

Deadline for Fall Semester: 2nd week in March

Deadline for Spring Semester: 3rd week in October

Other On-Campus Scholarship Opportunities

There are other scholarships that you may qualify for and are worth checking out.

Graduate Equity Fellowship:

Apply in Spring (Jan-Apr) for Fall awards

Graduate Fellowship:

Apply in Spring (Jan-Apr) for Fall awards

http://grad.sfsu.edu

Alumni Scholarships:

Apply in Spring (Feb 1 - Apr 1) for Fall awards.

http://alumni.sfsu.edu/scholarship

University Wide Scholarships:

Application dates vary

http://financialaid.sfsu.edu/

Off-Campus Financial Aid Opportunities

If you have the time and need the money, visit the following sites for additional scholarship/loan information

SFSU Teacher Credential Candidates Loan Opportunity:

http://www.prosper.com (link is external)

Financial Aid for Hispanic Students:

https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/making-college-affordable-online-guide-for-hispanic-students (link is external)

Scholarship Opportunity for Hispanic Students:

https://www.hsf.net/scholarship

Free online Scholarship search engines:

• https://www.scholarships.com