Grants and Scholarships
The School of Criminal Justice provides the following competitive scholarships to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. Funds from these scholarships are intended to cover the costs of books, tuition, and fellowship funds. Applications are available below. Please print out the application and follow the instructions below for submission. Applications are accepted until February 28 for the following academic year.
Instructions for applying.
- Zolton Ferency Endowed Scholarship:
- Provides tuition and/or assistantship funding to graduate or undergraduate students in criminal justice.
- Diane M. DiPonio Memorial Scholarship:
- Provides tuition support to women preparing for a career in law enforcement. Applicants should be of junior or senior status.
- Walter E. Bothe Memorial Scholarship Fund for Law Enforcement Studies
- Provides tuition assistance to graduate or undergraduate students pursuing careers in law enforcement.
- Private & Industrial Security Endowed Scholarship:
- Provides tuition support for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students with career interests in private and corporate security.
- Tournament of Friendship Scholarship
- Provides support for tuition and textbooks for undergraduate and graduate students in criminal justice. It is designed to promote multicultural diversity and preference is given to Michigan residents.
- Louis A. Radelet Graduate Diversity Scholarship:
- Provides assistantship and fellowship funding to minority graduate students in criminal justice.
- Michael J. Rutherford Endowed Scholarship:
- Provides tuition support for juniors, seniors and graduate students in criminal justice.
- Robert C. Trojanowicz Juvenile Justice Scholarship:
- Provides tuition support to undergraduate students preparing to enter a career in juvenile justice.