Some of the scholarships among the more than $100,000 awarded to school students each year promote racial, ethnic and socio-economic diversity with the school:

Quincy Sharpe Mills Scholarships

Amount: $3,000
Special consideration: Minority and disadvantaged students

These scholarships were endowed by the late Mrs. Nancy Sharpe Mills in memory of her son, Quincy Sharpe Mills, a journalist killed in France in World War I. Preference is given to minority and disadvantaged students.


Erwin Potts Scholarship

Amount: $2,000
Special consideration: News-editorial journalism; Latino students

This scholarship was made possible by an endowment from McClatchy Newspapers to honor the distinguished graduate of the School who was chairman and CEO of McClatchy Newspapers and is a member of the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame. Preference is given to Latino students studying newspaper journalism.


Vivian Edmonds Scholarship

Amount: $1,000
Special consideration: Promote diversity

These scholarships honor the publisher of The Carolina Times in Durham, who in 1988 became the first black honoree in the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame. It is for sophomores.
     

Alexander Morisey Scholarship

Amount: $1,000
Special consideration: Promote diversity 

These scholarships honor the memory of the black N.C. native who had an outstanding career in newspapers and public relations. They are for first-year students. Apply to Senior Associate Dean Dulcie Straughan by Aug. 15.


WTVD Endowment Scholarship

Amount: $1,000
Special consideration: Promote diversity; N.C. residents

This scholarship honors the memory of three men — Jim Lane, Rick Sherrill and Bart Smith — who were killed in a helicopter crash in 1991 while on assignment for Durham television station WTVD. Preference is given to students from North Carolina with a B average.


Minority Presence Grant Program — General Program

Amount: Varies
Special consideration: Minorities

The University will continue to fund the Minority Presence Grant Program — General Program, Part I and Part II. The University will allocate this money to historically white and historically black institutions to aid them in recruiting financially needy N.C. students who would be minority presence students at the respective institutions. These funds enable the institutions to offer relatively more aid for minority presence students in the form of grants rather than loans. General Program Part I includes funds for minority presence grants for students attending the North Carolina Central University School of Law. General Program Part II consists of grant funds for Native Americans, Hispanics and Asians.


Pfizer Minority Medical Journalism Scholarship

Amount: $6,000 per semester for four semesters of study
Special consideration: News-editorial journalism; medical journalism; minority and disadvantaged students

Awarded to an incoming master's student in the medical journalism program. Preference is given to minority and disadvantaged students.


Tom Wicker Scholarship

Amount: $1,000
Special consideration: News-editorial; minority and disadvantaged students
Deadline: March 1
Application: Contact the School's director of graduate studies.

This scholarship goes to a news-editorial graduate student, with preference to minority and disadvantaged students. Created by Tom Wicker, a School alumnus and former journalist with The New York Times.


Minority Presence Grant Program for Doctoral Study

Amount: Varies
Special consideration: Minorities

The Minority Presence Grant Program for Doctoral Study, Law, and Veterinary Medicine provides stipends of up to $4,000 for the academic year, with an option of $500 in additional support for study in the summer session, for black residents of North Carolina who are selected to participate. Recipients must be full-time students pursuing doctoral degrees, law degrees, or degrees in veterinary medicine at East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, or the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.