Scholarships/Fellowships

Gambrell Fellowship Recipient

Awarded a Gambrell Fellowship in 2021. The research will focus on using employee ownership to address the racial wealth gap in Charlotte. This project has great potential to impact the long-term racial wealth disparities here locally.

Student Success Innovation Lab

This initiative recognizes that two critical outcomes are essential to improve economic mobility among African-Americans and eliminate racial disparities in the Charlotte area. First, more Black students must persist in college through degree completion. Second,...

CAMMSE Research, Educational and Outreach, Workforce Development, and Technology Transfer Activities

CAMMSE (Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education) is a Tier 1 UTC (University Transportation Center) and a consortium of five universities, led by The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), each with outstanding programs in...

SACNAS Links: Connecting STEM Students to Peer Mentors

The objective of this program is to help build a network of support for incoming, underrepresented students by pairing them with undergraduate and graduate students who have or are successfully navigating the University system. All student participants will receive...

Latinx Leadership Initiative

Dr. Jim Watson, Dr. Debra Morris, Dr. Rebecca Shore represent core professors working within a school leadership masters and certificate program in the Cato College of Education, and two of us are former students of that program. We serve adult graduate students in...

Professional Studies Scholarship and Fee Waiver Programs

The School of Professional Studies supports and administers scholarship programs to support adult learners in continuing their education. The Anne Spychala Family Charitable Foundation Scholarship for Women in Continuing Education supports women returning to higher...

NSF S-STEM

COE was awarded a $999,591 grant from the National Science Foundation to support high-achieving, low-income engineering students as part of the NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program.

First Generation Student Resources

First generation college students may be focusing on what it takes to be successful and graduate. Studying Abroad may not have even crossed their mind and may not have been a part of a student’s initial academic plan. However, studying abroad has so many benefits...

Odyssean Scholarship

This scholarship is for students who have a demonstrably high financial need as determined by the Office of Financial Aid and who could not otherwise study abroad without the support offered by the scholarship.

Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship Workshops

The Gilman is a scholarship available to all Pell Grant recipients for study abroad of at least four weeks duration. Recipients receive between $3,000.00 and $8,000.00 to help offset the cost of studying in another country. Education Abroad at UNC Charlotte...