Buezetta Meyer and Charlot Hentz Scholarship

Scholarship support for deserving SIUE students. Criteria for selection is as follows:

• Must be a resident of Macoupin or Madison county in Illinois
• Demonstrated financial need

Preference will be given to full-time students in a field of study majoring in Communications or any of its branches who carry 12 credit hours or more per semester and maintain a 3.4 GPA on a scale of 4.0.

Recipient(s) will be chosen by a committee assigned by the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. A maximum annual scholarship of $5,000 per student, adjusted annually for inflation as measured by the increase in the CPI index, shall be given during the recipient’s 4-year course of study or for 5 years if the field of study is a 5-year or greater program. All students are encouraged to apply. The amount of the scholarship(s) will be determined based on available funds, and may be used for tuition or applied educational costs.

Students who have received scholarship awards as provided during their undergraduate course of study may receive additional scholarship awards for each semester of graduate study (up to 4 semesters) under the same guidelines with the exception the annual limitation shall be $10,000 adjusted annually for inflation as measured by the increase in the CPI index.