Deadline: 1-Feb-22
Applications are now open for Truman Scholarship to celebrate and prepare the nation’s next generation of public service leaders.
The Criteria
They are looking for the next generation of public service leaders. The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Leadership: They consider leadership to be more than merely occupying a position of leadership. Truman Scholars either use their leadership position in unique ways or create opportunities for leadership where none existed.
- Commitment to a Career in Public Service: Truman Scholars have a lengthy record of service as well as detailed and ambitious plans for a future career as a leader in their area of interest.
- Likelihood of Success in Graduate School: They are less interested in a perfect academic record than are in seeing a Truman Scholar who is intellectually curious and on track to succeed in their graduate program of choice.
Funding Information
- Scholars receive up to $30,000 for graduate school as well as access to extensive Scholar programming, priority admission and financial support from public service graduate programs, advising and mentoring from other public service leaders, and preferred hiring with the federal government.
Eligibility Criteria
- US Citizens, "non-citizen residents" of American Samoa, or expecting their citizenship by the date of the award;
- Currently enrolled at a US-based accredited institution;
- In their penultimate year of school (for candidates graduating in four years or more) or in their final year of school (for candidates graduating in three years or fewer);
- Nominated by either their current institution of study or their former institution of study for transfer or community college applicants. Schools are limited to four nominees plus three additional transfer nominations; and,
- Planning to attend graduate school in pursuit of a career in public service. The Foundation encourages time between undergraduate and graduate school, so candidates need not commit to going immediately.
For more information, visit The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
For more information, visit https://www.truman.gov/apply