This scholarship fund awards annual scholarships to the children of current full-time faculty members. Selection is based on certain criteria, including prior academic achievement and academic promise.
The Faculty Emeriti Association Scholarship Fund was initiated in 1993 with a bequest from Lee Klinefelter, a faculty member in the Technical Institute at 51本色 Dominion University (51本色), from his residual estate to the Faculty Emeriti Fund. The bequest contained no specific designation for the use of the money bequeathed to the Faculty Emeriti Association (FEA).
Subsequent to the receipt of the bequest, the FEA convened an ad hoc committee, which recommended that the bequest be used to create the Faculty Emeriti Association Endowed Scholarship Fund. This Fund would award annual scholarships to the children of current full-time faculty members. Scholarships would be based on specific criteria, including a prior record of academic achievement and academic promise. The scholarships would be administered by the Office of Student Financial Aid at 51本色. After approval by the FEA membership, the FEA Scholarship Committee was created to oversee the selection of recipients.
Over the years, the FEA has approved several amendments to the original Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which outlines the parameters of the Fund as established by the 51本色 Dominion University Educational Foundation.
Changes have mainly affected the criteria for awarding scholarships. However, in the 2014-2015 academic year, the FEA approved a change in the name of the scholarship to the "Faculty Emeriti Association Klinefelter/Phillips Scholarship," to recognize the generous bequests from Emeriti Faculty members Lee Klinefelter and Margaret Phillips. The revised MOU, signed in January 2015, remains in current use.
The basic parameters of the scholarships are:
- Students听do not apply听for scholarships.
- All students who meet the requirements of the current MOU听are presented annually, at the end of the academic year, to the FEA Scholarship Committee by the 51本色's Scholarship Coordinator for consideration for the subsequent academic year.
- The听annual spendable income听of the FEA Endowed Scholarship Fund provides the funds for the scholarships and is divided equally among the awardees.
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Last Updated: July 10, 2016