Financial Aid Office

Teaching Scholarships

Marion Strahl Boyer Scholarship

• Value: variable — renewable up to two years
• Criteria: merit and need based; first preference will be given to a student from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; non-traditional student preferred or must be at least a junior (56 credits earned); minimum 3.0 GPA
• Curriculum: English or pursuing a teaching degree with an English minor
• Selected by: Financial Aid Committee through scholarship sign-up

Thomas J. O’Neil Memorial Scholarship

• Value: $1000 — renewable
• Criteria: merit and need based; resident of Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan; earned at least 26 LSSU credits, minimum 3.0 GPA
• Note: If there is not an eligible candidate from the EUP, Michigan residents may be considered Curriculum: human services preferred, teaching may be considered
• Selected by: recommendation of the School of Education 

Robert O. Wallis C-MARSP Memorial Scholarship

• Value: variable — non-renewable
• Criteria: merit and need based; resident from Chippewa or Mackinac County; currently enrolled LSSU students with at least 26 earned LSSU credits and a minimum 3.0 GPA
• Curriculum: teaching (preference will be given to fifth-year teaching students)
• Selected by: recommendation from the School of Education

Daune Weiss Memorial Scholarship

• Value: variable — non-renewable
• Criteria: merit based; preference given to students from Otsego and Mackinac counties
• Curriculum: elementary/secondary education or business
• Selected by: Financial Aid Committee through scholarship sign-up