Educational Opportunities

SCHOLARSHIPS

AMVETS annu­ally awards schol­ar­ships to veterans/active mil­i­tary, their sons, daugh­ters or grand­chil­dren. A son, daugh­ter or grand­child of a deceased vet­eran is also eli­gi­ble. Awarded on the basis of aca­d­e­mic excel­lence and finan­cial need, the schol­ar­ships go to deserv­ing high school seniors, high school JROTC stu­dents and vet­er­ans pur­su­ing a higher education.

The fol­low­ing schol­ar­ships, funded by the AMVETS National Ser­vice Foun­da­tion, are awarded annually:

• Six $4,000 schol­ar­ships for high school seniors (PDF) ($1,000 a year of a four-year under­grad­u­ate pro­gram or at an accred­ited technical/trade lead­ing to cer­ti­fi­ca­tion or a degree; one selected from each district).
• Three $4,000 schol­ar­ships for vet­er­ans (PDF) ($1,000 a year of a four-year under­grad­u­ate pro­gram or certification/degree from an accred­ited technical/trade school; no regard for dis­trict boundaries).
• One $1,000 schol­ar­ship for a JROTC high school senior (PDF) enter­ing any under­grad­u­ate pro­grams (no regard for dis­trict boundaries).

Dr. Aure­lio M. Cac­como
Fam­ily Foun­da­tion Memo­r­ial Scholarship

One $3,000 schol­ar­ship for veterans/guardsman/reservists (PDF) will be awarded nation­wide per year, for the dura­tion of the grant, with­out regard for dis­trict bound­aries. The schol­ar­ship is for vet­er­ans, includ­ing mem­bers of the National Guard and Reserves, seek­ing new skills in order to be more com­pet­i­tive in the job mar­ket. The one time $3,000 award may be used for under­grad­u­ate courses, accred­ited degree or cer­tifi­cate pro­grams, includ­ing online schools.

Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix

The Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix is pleased to part­ner with AMVETS to offer and fund a schol­ar­ship pro­gram. This schol­ar­ship pro­gram will help to help vet­er­ans; active duty ser­vice mem­bers, reservists, guards­men and fam­ily mem­bers obtain a high-quality education.

Through this schol­ar­ship pro­gram, fifty (50) schol­ar­ships will be awarded in the amount of $7,000 non-cash credit to the Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix. The schol­ar­ship can be used towards an under­grad­u­ate or master’s pro­gram. Recip­i­ents may choose to take courses at a Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix on-ground cam­pus or online.

We are excited to announce that appli­ca­tions can be sub­mit­ted online this year. Please review the fol­low­ing options.

Option 1: Online Appli­ca­tion (preferable)

1. Access the Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix AMVETS Schol­ar­ship online appli­ca­tion.
2. Fol­low the instruc­tions to com­plete the online appli­ca­tion, includ­ing the essays.
3. Review your appli­ca­tion before sub­mit­ting.
4. Print a copy of the sub­mit­ted appli­ca­tion for your records.

Option 2: Paper Application

If you are under 21 years of age, or do not wish to com­plete the appli­ca­tion elec­tron­i­cally, you must sub­mit your paper appli­ca­tion via mail.

1. Print a copy of the Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix AMVETS Schol­ar­ship appli­ca­tion.
2. Com­plete the paper appli­ca­tion, includ­ing all sup­port­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion.
3. Your appli­ca­tion and signed forms must be sub­mit­ted via the mail­ing address on the appli­ca­tion under sub­mis­sion instruc­tions and must be received on or before the dead­line date.

Impor­tant Dates

Dead­line Date:
A com­plete appli­ca­tion and sup­port­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion must be received on or before August 11, 2011. Appli­ca­tions received after the des­ig­nated dead­line date will not be con­sid­ered. No exceptions.

Award Date:
The schol­ar­ship com­mit­tee will deter­mine the recip­i­ents of the schol­ar­ship by the award date of Novem­ber 11, 2011. You will be noti­fied via email by award date regard­ing the sta­tus of the schol­ar­ship. You will receive a noti­fi­ca­tion email regard­less if you were selected as a recip­i­ent or not.

For more infor­ma­tion about the Uni­ver­sity of Phoenix, visit www.phoenix.edu

For any addi­tional infor­ma­tion regard­ing the AMVETS schol­ar­ship, please e-mail scholarships@phoenix.edu.

Note:
Please be advised that it is the applicant’s respon­si­bil­ity to sub­mit a paper appli­ca­tion, which must be received on or before the dead­line date as set forth above. The schol­ar­ship com­mit­tee accepts no respon­si­bil­ity for incom­plete appli­ca­tions, appli­ca­tions not in proper form, lost appli­ca­tions, or any other sub­mis­sion. No exceptions.

Tuition Ben­e­fit for All AMVETS Members

Eli­gi­ble stu­dents of ORGANIZATION communities/AMVETS will receive a ten per­cent (10%) reduc­tion from the University’s reg­u­lar tuition amounts for all pro­grams. This tuition dis­count is avail­able to all mem­bers in good stand­ing of AMVETS and its sub­or­di­nates (Aux­il­iary, Sons & Rid­ers) in pos­ses­sion of a cur­rent mem­ber­ship card. To fur­ther your edu­ca­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties, call 800.680.9773. Use your AMVETS mem­ber­ship card to con­firm eligibility.

Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve mem­bers and their spouses will con­tinue to receive the stan­dard mil­i­tary tuition rates.

Devry Uni­ver­sity

AMVETS and Devry Uni­ver­sity have teamed up to offer vet­er­ans and their fam­i­lies an oppor­tu­nity to pur­sue or enhance their col­lege edu­ca­tion through tuition schol­ar­ships val­ued at up to $9,000 each towards an under­grad­u­ate or grad­u­ate degree at DeVry Uni­ver­sity or it’s Keller Grad­u­ate School of Management.

Ten schol­ar­ships will be awarded each semes­ter. (Schol­ar­ships for online or any of their insti­tu­tions within the United States)

Those eli­gi­ble are Vet­er­ans, their imme­di­ate fam­ily mem­bers (i.e. spouse, nat­ural and adopted chil­dren) and the nat­ural and adopted chil­dren of mem­ber of the active mil­i­tary, includ­ing Guard and Reserve.However, if you are presently a stu­dent at DeVry Uni­ver­sity or Keller Grad­u­ate School of Man­age­ment, you are inel­i­gi­ble for this scholarship.

Active duty are not eli­gi­ble because DeVry has a more attrac­tive dis­counted pro­gram for them and their spouses.

Down­load DeVry Uni­ver­sity schol­ar­ship appli­ca­tion.

Schol­ar­ship appli­ca­tions may be down­loaded (see links above) or requested by send­ing a self-addressed, stamped enve­lope to the AMVETS National Pro­grams Department.