Scholarship Application | Columbia-Greene Community College

C-GCC Student ID (if known)

Email(Required)

If you have received your college email, please provide that address.

Primary Phone Number(Required)

If you are a non-credit student please provide the non-credit course title(s), and course number(s) you are enrolled in(Required)

Short Answer Questions

The following short answer questions are required for scholarship consideration. Please keep your answers concise.

How will this scholarship benefit the pursuit of your academic goals? (four sentences or fewer)(Required)

How will you use a scholarship, if you receive one? (four sentences or fewer)(Required)

Why did you choose to further your education? (four sentences or fewer)(Required)

How do you spend your time outside your academic pursuits? (four sentences or fewer)(Required)

For Carol Kaler Scholarship consideration (optional): We often are told to be who we needed when we were younger. Who would you like to be? (four sentences or fewer)

Please provide the name of the high school

Additional Scholarships

Responses for Additional Scholarship

Please list the name of the organization or company to which you belong?

What instrument do you play?

Please describe your volunteer work and include the organization's name.

Who do you consider to be a role model?

Only for students enrolled in the Police Basic Training Program.

Some of the questions in the following section pertain to the Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarship Program.

The Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarship Program (ESDHSP) is designed to direct aid to undergraduate students who have demonstrated academic achievement and overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education. Candidates will contribute to the diversity of the student body by demonstrating their commitment to facilitating and enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in their academic programs and activities.

The Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarship Program is open to any and all prospective candidates regardless of race, color, national origin, or sex, and is consistent with all current governing federal and state nondiscrimination law. All application submissions will be assessed and evaluated in accordance with the required eligibility criteria.

All campus distributions are pending annual state budget approval.

The eligibility requirements for this scholarship are as follows:

1. Be U.S. citizens or have permanent resident status
2. Be a New York Resident
3. Demonstrate how they have overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education.
4. Demonstrate a commitment to contributing to the diversity of the student body by facilitating and enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in their academic programs and campus activities.

Please complete this section even if you do not meet the requirements for the Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarship Program because you may still qualify for additional diversity-based scholarships.

Please also describe how each of the preference categories chosen is applicable to you and your related experience thereof.(Required)

Describe how you’ve engaged, facilitated, and/or enhanced diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in your campus and/or local community. You may also share experiences overcoming economic, social, educational and/or other barriers. (Four sentences or fewer.)

Please keep your answers concise.

Consent & Acknowledgement

Initials(Required)

Date(Required)