Scholarships

Scholarship awards will be determined by funds and donations available at the time the scholarships are granted. The scholarship is a one-time award provided directly to the financial aid office of the University of Louisville.

All scholarships will require a personal statement (max 750 words). Below are questions you may use to guide your response: 

1. What makes you a good candidate for this scholarship? 
2. What are your goals while enrolled at UofL? 
3. What are your goals after completing an undergraduate degree? 
4. What extracurricular activities, social justice movements, or other activities are you currently involved in? Be sure to highlight any activism or advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community. 
5. How do you plan to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community in the future? 

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Bourke DeLeon Endowed LGBTQ+ Catholic Scholarship 

Established in 2018 by the University of Louisville Alumnus Greg Bourke and his husband Michael DeLeon, the Bourke DeLeon Endowed LGBTQ+ Catholic Scholarship will be awarded to subsidize the cost of higher education at the University of Louisville, with preference given to students who are a member of the LGBTQ+ and Catholic communities

Qualifications: To apply you must meet the following qualifications: 

Established by the University of Louisville Pride Alumni Council in honor of Brian Buford, founding Executive Director of the UofL LGBT Center, the Brian Buford Endowed Pride Alumni Scholarship will be awarded to subsidize the cost of higher education at the University of Louisville, with preference given to LGBTQ+ students. 

Qualifications: To apply you must meet the following qualifications: 

Dawn Wilson Scholarship for LGBTQ+ Students of Color

Established by alumnus Joey Feldman (Kent School of Social Work, 2010), the Dawn Wilson Scholarship will be awarded to subsidize the cost of higher education at the University of Louisville for undergraduate LGBTQ+ students of color.

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Johnson-Campion Alumni Scholarship 

Established by graduate alumnus Paul Campion (College of Education, 1993) and his husband, Randy Johnson, the Johnson-Campion Scholarship will be awarded to subsidize the cost of higher education at the University of Louisville for students with strong financial need, with preference given to undergraduate students focused on advancing equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community.

 

 

About the namesake: Paul Campion and Randy Johnson have been a couple since 1991 and were married in 2008, when gay marriage became legal in California, but their marriage was not recognized back home in Kentucky. As same-sex parents to their four adopted children, they were concerned about discriminatory laws that prevented them both from being legally recognized as parents, for example, if one of them died, the other had no rights to the children legally adopted in his partner's name. As a result, they joined three other Kentucky couples in a July 2013 lawsuit seeking recognition of their marriages by the state. Early in 2014, a federal judge ruled in their favor, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit struck down the ruling in November of 2014. By then, Paul and Randy had joined forces with the ACLU and other couples seeking marriage equality and were among six cases from four states that made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, which began hearing arguments in April of 2015 and in a landmark decision on June 26, 2015, ruled in favor of marriage equality. 

John Burton Harter Endowed Scholarship

TBD

Ken Terrill Memorial Award
Deadline: See link below to A&S scholarship page

The College of Arts and Sciences  gives an annual award to a student who demonstrates leadership in the LGBTQ+ community, in memory of the late Ken Terrill, a professor of Theatre Arts from 1978 to 1994. The fund was established by his family, co-workers, students, and friends. This award is available to students university-wide.

Find more information about the Ken Terrill Memorial Award here: http://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/students/scholarships 

Additional Scholarships

The following scholarships and scholarship databases may be of interest to LGBTQ+ and allied students but are not tied to the University of Louisville LGBT Center:

Ken Terrill Memorial Award
Deadline: See link below to A&S scholarship page

The College of Arts and Sciences  gives an annual award to a student who demonstrates leadership in the LGBTQ+ community, in memory of the late Ken Terrill, a professor of Theatre Arts from 1978 to 1994. The fund was established by his family, co-workers, students, and friends. This award is available to students university-wide.

Find more information about the Ken Terrill Memorial Award here: http://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/students/scholarships 

Credit Donkey LGBTQ+ Scholarship Database

A guide of nearly 200 scholarships, internships, and nonprofit resources for LGBTQ+ students. Visit https://www.creditdonkey.com/resources-lgbtq-students.html

Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund

The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides grants to students actively working for peace and justice. These need-based scholarships are awarded to those able to do academic work at the university level and who are part of the progressive movement on the campus and in the community. Early recipients worked for civil rights, against McCarthyism, and for peace in Vietnam. Recent grantees have been active in the struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression; building the movement for economic justice; and creating peace through international anti-imperialist solidarity.

For more information, including deadlines, eligibility, and other requirements, visit https://davisputter.org/

Human Rights Campaign Scholarship Database

The Human Rights Campaign hosts a scholarship database for LGBTQ+ and allied students on their webpage here: https://www.hrc.org/scholarship-database/c/national 

Deadlines, requirements, and eligibility vary for each scholarship in the listing. 

Transgender First National Scholarship

The first national scholarship exclusively dedicated to helping underserved Transgender students get affordable access to a college education. Applicants must identify as Transgender, plan to pursue a degree, or currently pursuing a degree, at an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution, have a high school diploma or GED, and be a U.S. Citizen. Awards are annual and based on eligibility, financial need, personal hardship, academic merit, and other related considerations. 

For more information visit https://www.onlinedegree.com/transgender-first-scholarship/ 

Zippia Scholarship Listing

Zippia, a job and scholarship search website, offers a listing of  "30 LGBTQ Scholarships for Higher Education"

"Individuals within the LGBTQ community are already faced with enough obstacles in their daily lives that they don't need the added stress of figuring out how to pay for a higher education. Through the means of finding 30 scholarships dedicated to supporting the community, we're hoping to alleviate some of that stress. Many scholarships go unapplied each year, which means lots of money goes unused. So make sure you check out these scholarships while you're planning your educational future." - Zippia