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College Of Education Scholarships
Financing Your Education
The College of Education has been generously funded by individuals and families who support education. Our scholarships provide financial support that helps meet your needs as you progress through your program, allowing you to enter the work force with less debt. In addition to other university-wide scholarships, more than 110 scholarships are targeted specifically to education. Last year, more than $234,000 in scholarship funds were awarded.
Applying is Easy
UCM Scholarship Finder
Students have access to many different scholarships across all areas of the College of Education. UCM Scholarship Finder is a new online system that makes it easy and convenient for students to apply for all UCM Alumni Foundation scholarships.
College of Education Specific Scholarships
Career & Technical Education
Business Teacher Education
- Beulah Gutridge Winfrey Scholarship in Business Education
- Dr. Patsy Kettinger-Prugh Secondary Education Business Teacher Education Scholarship
- Genge Family Scholarship (alternates years)
- Wilda Dean Creighton Memorial Scholarship
Engineering & Technical Teacher Education
- Ben E. Moore Scholarship
- William R. Harmsen Scholarship in Technology Education
Family Consumer Sciences Education
- Doris Achenbach Sensenich Scholarship in FACS
- Doris Houx Kirkpatrick Family Consumer Sciences Scholarship
- Edna Gehlken Graduate Scholarship in Home Economics
- Edna Gehlken Undergraduate Scholarship in Home Economics
- Elizabeth Collings Weekley Scholarship
- Elizabeth J. Giesler Family and Consumer Sciences Scholarship
- Laura Baker Scholarship
- Rita L. Youmans Scholarship in Home Economics
CSPA Graduate Certificate Candidates
- Dr. David Sundberg Honorary CSPA Scholarship (requires additional materials)
Counselor Education
- Counselor Education Scholarship
- Dr. K. Dale Helmick Memorial Scholarship
- Maurice & Shirley How Johnson Education Scholarship Endowment
- William Burl Hammers Memorial Scholarship
Educational Foundations & Literacy
- Department of Educational Foundations & Literacy Scholarship
- Dr. Kathleen Ranson Scholarship in Reading
- Kathryn & Richard Carr Graduate Scholarship in Reading (requires additional materials)
Educational Leadership
- Cliff & Patty Mohn CPPP Leadership Scholarship (requires additional materials)
- Dr. John Paul Mees Scholarship in Educational Administration
- James L. & Judith A. Cockrell Middle School Leadership Sship
- Mary E. Warren Elgeva Waller Education Administration Scho
- Sandra & Charles Braithwait School Administration Schol.
- School Administration Scholarship Fund (requires additional materials)
Early Childhood & Elementary Education
- Beth Tankersley-Bankhead Scholarship in Elementary Education
- C. O. & Mildred Putnam Scholarship
- Dorothy Stockton Sims Scholarship for Non-Traditional Graduate Students in Elementary Education (requires additional materials)
- E. L. Crayton & Margaret B. Crayton Memorial Scholarship
- Elementary & Early Childhood Education Scholarship (requires additional materials)
- Fannie Faulkner Seevers Memorial Scholarship
- Harriet Quick Little Family Scholarship
- Helen Monroe Bell Scholarship
- Karen Wood Fox Education Scholarship
- Margaret Simpson Haugh Scholarship
- Mary E., Clara, & Mabel Falke Memorial Scholarship
- Merle & Maxine Rider Scholarship in Early Childhood
- Merle C. & Lillian J. Rider Scholarship in Early Childhood
- Paul E. Brattstrom Scholarship
- Rudolph & Florentine Grother Scholarship
Library Sciences & Information Services
- Beatrice Ricks Library Scholarship
- Dr. Aileen Helmick Memorial Scholarship in Library Science
- Mary Frances Dick Hayden Scholarship (alternates years)
- Suzanne Foster Scholarship in Library Science (requires additional materials)
Physical Education
- Clarence M. & Christine M. Whiteman Memorial Scholarship
- Dr. Eldo & Viola Hendricks Memorial Scholarship (alternates years)
- Dr. Robert Tompkins Memorial Scholarship
- Jessie B. Jutten Physical Education Scholarship
- Lyle B. & Evelyn E. Beaver Scholarship in Recreation
- M. Ruth Sevy Memorial Scholarship
- Shelby & Marjorie Brightwell Scholarship (alternates years)
- Teresa A. Roberts Scholarship
- William & Dorothy Brewster & Nancy Saunders-Cromer Scholarship
Special Education & Behavior Analysis
- Coonley-Guth Scholarship
- Donald L. Osborn Special Education Scholarship
- Dr. Don M. Rice Scholarship in Special Education
- Edward J. & Frances Allen Cleary Scholarship in Special Education
- Louise Thielbar Keisker Scholarship for Graduate Studies
College of Education Student Organizations
- Kappa Delta Pi Scholarship
- LEAD - Ted R. & Mary B. Garten Diversity Scholarship
- Student Missouri State Teachers Association Scholarship
Any College of Education Program
All Programs
- Ada M. Griffin Scholarship
- Bill & Nan Brame Memorial Scholarship
- Charles N. Hagan Scholarship
- Colene Smyer Hank & Harvey Hank Scholarship
- Corrinna Harte Nance Memorial Scholarship
- Daniels/Ragland Geographic Education Scholarship
- Dr. J. Lawrence & Lucy Walkup Scholarship in Education
- Gordon R. & Eula A. Renfrow Scholarship
- James L. & Jean E. (Leaton) Fullerton Secondary Education Scholarship (alternates years)
- Joan Marie Eighinger Scholarship
- Joseph Snoble Science Education Scholarship
- Merville L. Meverden Scholarship
- Mildred Fyrne Leaton Scholarship
- Myrtle E. Thompson Arwood & F. Marie Thompson Education Scholarship
- Nelvada Surbaugh Dean & E. B. Dean Scholarship in Education
- Rex & Marie Lawson Scholarship
- Robert D. & Betty Longwith Scholarship in Education
- Sandra Peters Schroeder Education Scholarship
- The Dennis O. & Ruth Charlotta Walker Scholarship in Education
- The Doctor & Mrs. Marion S. Schott Scholarship in Education
- Vernon Kennedy Memorial Scholarship
- Wm. Jasper & Martha Ann Breshears Memorial Scholarship
Undergraduate Only
- Argyle O. Wakeman Memorial Scholarship
- Beulah McFarland Teacher Education Scholarship
- Byron & Maxine Chryst Memorial Scholarship
- Christy Cox Whitley Memorial Education Scholarship
- D. Maude Wright Scholarship
- Dorothy Martin Strate Scholarship (requires additional materials)
- Dr. Shela D Snyder Teacher Education Scholarship
- James L. & Jean E. (Leaton) Fullerton Secondary Education Scholarship
- Joseph Snoble Science Education Scholarship
- Laura L. Raker Barr Scholarship for Teacher Education
- Leroy Barrows Scholarship (requires additional materials)
- Margaret Winn Haynes Memorial Scholarship
- McKean Family Scholarship
- Oliver & Ruth G. Seaton Memorial Scholarship
- Ona Ada Tipton Steffen Scholarship
- Phillips Family Scholarship
- Roy M. & Marjorie Lentz Carter Scholarship in Education
- Sandra Harlan Cockriel Scholarship
- Terry Gene Michael Scholarship
- The Doctor & Mrs. Marion S. Schott Scholarship in Education
- Wayne L. & Anna M. Cleveland Scholarship
Graduate Only
- James A. Hudson Excellence in Teaching Scholarship
- Mary Jo & Kent Cable Scholarship for Education (requires additional materials)
Student Teaching Specific
These scholarships are only awarded for the semester in which the recipient will student teach. Eligibility is based on completion of student teaching requirements as determined by the Office of Clinical Services and Certification.
Any Student Teacher
- Dr. William Bell Scholarship for Student Teachers
- L. Len Gregg, E. Louise Roop Gregg, & Louise Gregg Mayfield Scholarship in Education
Specific Student Teachers
- Curriculum & Instruction Retired Faculty Outstanding Student Teacher Award (Early Childhood, Elementary, or Middle School only)
- Dr. Shela D Snyder Teacher Education (undergraduate only)
- L. Marlene Mawson Physical Education Scholarship (Physical Education only)
- Paul Rorvig Memorial Scholarship (Social Sciences Education only)
- Prewitt Family Scholarship (undergraduate only)
- Voncile Bowen Huffman Scholarship (undergraduate only)
Please note: Not all scholarships are offered every year. Some scholarships alternate award year with other programs on campus. Some scholarships require additional materials for application and must be directly applied to for eligibility. Where applicable, these have been indicated in the lists above. Please consult the actual scholarship opportunity in UCM Scholarship Finder for specific details.
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