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High School Seniors:
Become an ACLU Student Activist Scholar
and Receive Financial Aid for College in 2010!
If you are passionate about protecting and fighting for the constitutional rights of everyone, fill out and return the Student Activist Scholarship Program Application by November 10, 2009.
The ACLU of Utah is offering three $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors who have taken a stand to protect civil liberties! These winners will be forwarded to the national ACLU which is offering 15 of the nation's most committed young civil liberties activists $7,000 each toward their first year in college.
Read about this years three winners >>
This video features the three 2009 ACLU of Utah scholarship winners
Learn how winning this scholarship changed a life >>
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Are you passionate about civil liberties?
Have you taken a stand for:
- Racial Justice
- Free Speech
- Human Rights
- Equality
- Tolerance
- Religious Freedom
- Privacy
If so, you might have what it takes to become an
ACLU Youth Activist Scholar!
To qualify for the scholarship you must:
- Have demonstrated a strong commitment to civil liberties through some form of activism;
- Be a high school senior planning on entering an accredited college or university as a full-time, degree-seeking student; and
- Have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale at the time of graduation.
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Students who complete the application forms will be judged on the following standards:
- The strength and depth of the candidate’s contributions to civil liberties
- Demonstrated leadership
- The likelihood of the applicant continuing commitment to civil liberties in the future
- Commitment to academic excellence
- Demonstrated financial need
The application is quite simple. Students must complete a short application form, and write a 1,000-word essay about their commitment to, and work on behalf of, civil liberties. They must also submit a recommendation from a non-family reference. |
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| Local Youth Activists are also National ACLU Scholarship Winners! Two of the three young women who received the ACLU of Utah's Youth Activist Scholarship Awards in 2008 also won the National ACLU Youth Activist Scholarship Competition! Learn more about those winners >> |
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If you are passionate about protecting and fighting for the constitutional rights of everyone, fill out and return the Student Activist Scholarship Program Application by November 10, 2009.
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Past national scholarship winners were recognized for a wide variety of civil liberties activism including:
- Starting an organization to inform students and faculty about high school military recruitment efforts that targeted students of color;
- Working to defend free speech and political expression in the school newspaper;
- Creating a documentary about the internment of Japanese Americans;
- Fighting for racial and socioeconomic justice in area high schools;
- Advocating for comprehensive sex education and youth rights;
- Fighting against the harassment and bullying faced by gay students by starting a gay-straight alliance.
If you would like more information about the scholarship program, feel free to call (801) 521-9862 ext 111 or email scholarship@acluutah.org
To learn more about the ACLU, its mission, and the work we do, please visit the following sites:
LET OTHER PEOPLE KNOW! Print a one-page flier about the program >>
APPLY NOW! Print an application form >>
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