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Become an ACLU of Utah Student Activist Scholar!
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is offering scholarships for the first year of college to graduating high school seniors who have taken a stand for civil liberties. A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to the first place winner, and $500 to second and third places winners.
All recipients will be nominated for a $5,000 national scholarship, which will be awarded to 15 students from across the country. Those students will then become part of a group of student activists whose talents and passion will be fostered by the ACLU national office, and who will be invited to participate in ongoing activities.
Think you’ve got what it takes?
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.
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 1, 2007.
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.
Please contact our Youth Scholarship Coordinator, Stephanie Peterson at (801) 521-9862 ext 108 or at speterson@acluutah.org for more information about the scholarship.
To learn more about the ACLU, its mission, and the work we do, please visit the following sites:
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