Hesburgh Scholarship

The 2008 General Education Program/Hesburgh Awards for Student Academic Achievement

The TIAA-CREF Hesburgh endowment fund enables the General Education Program to offer each spring four $1,000 academic achievement awards to one student from each of the four undergraduate classes.

Students may apply for these awards or be nominated by their teachers. Qualifications and documentation vary for each category of applicant/nominee. Select your undergraduate class based on hours completed/credited as of January 1, 2008. Essay topics may be found under the definition of undergraduate class in the table below.

Undergraduate class is determined by Registrar's definition:

Essays will be judged on substantive content, clarity, cogency, originality, effective order and presentation, skillful development of ideas, and correct grammar and punctuation.

Applications must be received in 128 Jesse Hall, Monday, April 7, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. Winners will be determined by the Committee on Undergraduate Education and the Office of the Provost, and will be announced at a special awards ceremony in late April or early May, 2008. Applications are available online, from any MU professional advisor, or from the Office for Undergraduate Studies, 128 Jesse Hall, 882-1620.