Financial Aid
Financial Aid
Collegewide Undergraduate Scholarships and Fellowships
Academic Excellence Award
The Jane Ann Legnard Alexandroff Scholarship (for a senior honors project)
Alumni Scholarship (for current students)
Columbia College Financial Assistance Grants
Hermann D. Conaway Scholarship
The Helen Fong Dare Asian-American Scholarship in the Arts (for Asian-American students)
High School Summer Institute Scholarship
Hilary Kalish Scholarship (for medically and financially challenged students)
Phi Theta Kappa (for outstanding transfer students from participating community colleges)
Presidential Scholarship Program (for incoming freshmen)
David R. Rubin Trustees’ Student Scholarship
Residence Hall Scholarships
Study Abroad Scholarships
Transfer Student Scholarship Program
Al Weisman Scholarship (for current students)
Telephone the Student Financial Services Office at 312-369-7140 or 312-369-7143 for more information concerning these scholarships and fellowships.
Collegewide Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Opportunity Award
Follett Fellowships
Telephone the Graduate Office at 312-369-7260 for more information on these fellowships
Department Scholarships
John Schultz and Betty Shiflett Story Workshop Scholarships
(For undergraduates and graduates)
The John Schultz and Betty Shiflett Story Workshop Scholarship fund, established in 1997, was the idea of John Schultz and Betty Shiflett, Emeritus Professors and distinguished teachers of writing in both the graduate and undergraduate Fiction Writing programs at Columbia College Chicago. Their generous and substantial individual donations seeded the Scholarship Fund in its initial year and were matched with donations from alumni, faculty, staff, and students, as well as from friends of the Fiction Writing Department. The scholarships are intended for talented, deserving writing students in the Master’s programs and undergraduate program, at midpoint in their course of studies in the Fiction Writing Department.
The scholarships are a tribute to the force and depth of John Schultz’s and Betty Shiflett’s teaching, and an affirmation of the power of the Story Workshop method originated and developed by John Schultz. The Story Workshop methodology is a profoundly democratic pedagogy that, recognizing degrees of talent, draws first and always upon the voice and imagination each individual brings to the classroom.
The scholarship covers up to $2500 of tuition at Columbia College Chicago.
The Sylvia McNair Travel Story Scholarship
(For undergraduates and graduates)
In the autumn of 2001, the Midwest Travel Writers Association established a scholarship in the name of one of their long-time members, Sylvia McNair. This scholarship, sponsored in part by MTWA and further supported by contributions from students, staff, faculty, alumni, friends of the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago, and outside professional organizations, is intended to recognize and reward excellence in writing about travel and place.
Countless literary masters have used the power of place in their works. The tradition may have started with Homer’s Odyssey. Since then, writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Jan Morris, Virginia Woolf, and others have demonstrated that a strong sense of place adds depth, meaning, and color to their works.
$500 is awarded to the best essay.
Work-Study
(For undergraduates and graduates)
Fiction Writing students who are qualified for the Federal Work Study Program can work up to 20 hours a week in the Fiction Writing Department. Students must have a Federal Work Study Award and be enrolled for at least 6 credit hours per semester.
Academic Excellence AwardThe Jane Ann Legnard Alexandroff Scholarship (for a senior honors project)Alumni Scholarship (for current students)Columbia College Financial Assistance GrantsHermann D. Conaway ScholarshipThe Helen Fong Dare Asian-American Scholarship in the Arts (for Asian-American students)High School Summer Institute ScholarshipHilary Kalish Scholarship (for medically and financially challenged students)Phi Theta Kappa (for outstanding transfer students from participating community colleges)Presidential Scholarship Program (for incoming freshmen)David R. Rubin Trustees’ Student ScholarshipResidence Hall ScholarshipsStudy Abroad ScholarshipsTransfer Student Scholarship ProgramAl Weisman Scholarship (for current students)Telephone the Student Financial Services Office at 312-369-7140 or 312-369-7143 for more information concerning these scholarships and fellowships.
Collegewide Graduate Fellowships
Graduate Opportunity AwardFollett FellowshipsTelephone the Graduate Office at 312-369-7260 for more information on these fellowships
Department Scholarships
John Schultz and Betty Shiflett Story Workshop Scholarships
(For undergraduates and graduates)
The John Schultz and Betty Shiflett Story Workshop Scholarship fund, established in 1997, was the idea of John Schultz and Betty Shiflett, Emeritus Professors and distinguished teachers of writing in both the graduate and undergraduate Fiction Writing programs at Columbia College Chicago. Their generous and substantial individual donations seeded the Scholarship Fund in its initial year and were matched with donations from alumni, faculty, staff, and students, as well as from friends of the Fiction Writing Department. The scholarships are intended for talented, deserving writing students in the Master’s programs and undergraduate program, at midpoint in their course of studies in the Fiction Writing Department.
The scholarships are a tribute to the force and depth of John Schultz’s and Betty Shiflett’s teaching, and an affirmation of the power of the Story Workshop method originated and developed by John Schultz. The Story Workshop methodology is a profoundly democratic pedagogy that, recognizing degrees of talent, draws first and always upon the voice and imagination each individual brings to the classroom.
The scholarship covers up to $2500 of tuition at Columbia College Chicago.
The Sylvia McNair Travel Story Scholarship
(For undergraduates and graduates)
In the autumn of 2001, the Midwest Travel Writers Association established a scholarship in the name of one of their long-time members, Sylvia McNair. This scholarship, sponsored in part by MTWA and further supported by contributions from students, staff, faculty, alumni, friends of the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago, and outside professional organizations, is intended to recognize and reward excellence in writing about travel and place.
Countless literary masters have used the power of place in their works. The tradition may have started with Homer’s Odyssey. Since then, writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Jan Morris, Virginia Woolf, and others have demonstrated that a strong sense of place adds depth, meaning, and color to their works.
$500 is awarded to the best essay.
Work-Study
(For undergraduates and graduates)
Fiction Writing students who are qualified for the Federal Work Study Program can work up to 20 hours a week in the Fiction Writing Department. Students must have a Federal Work Study Award and be enrolled for at least 6 credit hours per semester.
