The Office of Student Life and Central Student Government have established a new scholarship opportunity for students to help remove the cost barriers to participating in extracurricular activities.
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The Leadership Engagement Scholarship will provide financial awards to a small cohort of student leaders with demonstrated need. The goal is to support up to 15 students a year.
“Many students are unable to participate in the rich extracurricular life at U-M,” says CSG President David Schafer. “Some work two or three jobs and others simply can’t afford the high membership fees that some organizations require.”
Schafer adds that the fund organizers believe socioeconomic status should never hold students back from their endeavors, both inside and outside the classroom.
The scholarship will support student leadership in all areas of campus life, such as Greek Life, student government, club sports and the performing arts sector. It will be administered by Student Life, in coordination with the Office of Financial Aid.
Each class of student award recipients will form a Leadership Cohort, and will later be expected to pay it forward through a commitment to serving as “graduated mentors” to younger students, as well as through sustained engagement with the U-M community.
