The following list of endowed scholarships is automatically awarded to students based on a software database matching process between the scholarship criteria and the student’s profile information. Therefore, students should not contact Financial Aid and attempt to apply for a scholarship because there is no application process. Some of the endowed scholarships are awarded by faculty during the annual Honors Convocation and those are clearly identified in the list below.
If a student is awarded one of the listed scholarships, the awarded money will replace any KWC institutional need-based aid the student may be receiving. Some of these scholarships may, in fact, be added on top of other scholarships a student is already receiving from KWC, but the total amount of scholarship/award dollars a student receives cannot exceed the total of direct costs (tuition, fees, room, and board) at Kentucky Wesleyan College.
List of Financial Need Scholarships
Alphabetical by Donor’s Last Name or Organization’s First Name
Payton Adams Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing with demonstrated financial need. Preference is given to minority students.
Nathan B. Allison Scholarship
Criteria: For students in their junior year, maintaining a B average, and demonstrating financial need. Preference to a student in mathematics, with a second preference to physics, and a third preference to biology.
George L. Bagby Scholarship
Criteria: For students with demonstrated financial need. If a student becomes a recipient, he/she must intend on paying back the scholarship amount over his/her lifetime to ensure this scholarship remains in perpetuity for future students.
Beverly Scholarship
Criteria: For students with demonstrated financial need.
Lexie Bryant Taylor Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in education, in good academic standing at KWC, having at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA, and demonstrating financial need.
Cargill Foundation Scholarship
Criteria: For full-time students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher from an underrepresented race/ethnicity in the teacher education program and demonstrate financial need. 1 sophomore, 1 junior, and 1 senior (renewable until graduation as long as financial need exists).
Virginia Harris Combs Scholarship
Criteria: For students who have displayed the academic ability to succeed at KWC and have demonstrated financial need. Preference is given to females.
Ted & Deborah Dearing Global Outlook Scholarship
Criteria: For students full-time and in good standing at KWC and with demonstrated financial need, participating in the study abroad program, who commit to participate in at least one activity involving sharing their study abroad experiences.
Dr. Diane Earle Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in music or music education, at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA. Preference for piano majors and demonstrated financial need.
T.D. & Rowena Everett Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students in strong academic standing who demonstrate financial need.
Henry P. & Judith R. Ford Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in education or pre-engineering, in good academic standing, and demonstrating financial need.
Rev. Alvin J. Gilliam Ministerial Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For full-time junior or senior students intent on ministry as a career with at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA and with demonstrated financial need.
E.L. (Buddy) & Martha Gordon Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For KWC students from the Owensboro-Daviess County area with demonstrated financial need.
The Gracie Fund Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in history with plans to be a teacher, at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA, and preferably a first-generation college student.
Doris (Waltrip) Gray Scholarship
Criteria: For students pursuing a career in elementary education, enrolled full-time, in good academic standing, and have unmet financial needs.
Yu Hak Hahn Scholarship
Criteria: For students enrolled full-time with at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA and majoring in a science discipline of either biology, chemistry, or physics. Preference for students with a demonstrated financial need.
Marie Grobmyer Hartford & James F. Hartford Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing from Carrollton, Kentucky who have shown potential to become leaders in order to make our country a better place for future generations. Preference for those with demonstrated financial need.
Jane F. Hartsough Scholarship
Criteria: For undergraduate students who demonstrate financial need and are in good academic standing. Preference is given to female students.
Mark C. Hedges Scholarship
Criteria: For a first-generation KWC student in good academic standing and with demonstrated financial need. Seniors are ineligible.
Tommie J. Hillmon Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing and demonstrated financial need.
Bob & Erlene Himes Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Ohio or Taylor counties in Kentucky. The second preference is for students with demonstrated financial need.
Michael E. Horn Family Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Owensboro-Daviess County, demonstrated financial need, and in good academic standing.
Henry M. Johnson Educational Scholarship
Criteria: For students exhibiting qualities of leadership in student life, religious affairs, or in service to others. Students must have at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA with demonstrated financial need.
John W. Jones Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in business administration in good academic standing and with demonstrated financial need.
Lucy Lauenstein Moss Scholarship Trust
Criteria: For students with demonstrated financial need and in good academic standing.
Marcia Smith Lawrence Appalachian Scholarship
Criteria: For students with a minimum GPA of 3.0 cumulative GPA at KWC with demonstrated financial need, and originally from the following counties in Kentucky: Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Knott, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Owsley, Perry, Pike, or Wolf.
Dr. Thomas and Rhonda Mitzel Scholarship
Criteria: For full-time students accepted into enrollment or already enrolled that are in good academic standing with KWC with a GPA of 3.0 or higher and have financial need.
Victor H. Mohr Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic standing and demonstrate financial need.
Truman A. & Gertrude E. Morris Scholarship Fund
Criteria: For students in good academic standing and demonstrate financial need.
Paul & Gladys J. Osborne Scholarship
Criteria: For students studying any major in the Arts & Humanities with demonstrated financial need and at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA. Preference for non-athletes.
Barbara Milner Rankin Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in education (preference for elementary education) in good academic standing and with demonstrated financial need.
Henry Lewis Moss & Cora Lillian Coakley Moss Scholarship Endowment Fund
Criteria: For future ministerial students planning to be Methodist ministers who have demonstrated financial need and are in good standing with KWC.
Gus Paris Scholarship Award
Awarded in April at Honors Convocation: Awarded to a student(s) who are majoring in political science or history, are in good academic standing, and have financial need.
George Rives Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students with demonstrated financial need. Preference is given to students outside the disciplines of sports management or physical education. financial need.
Lucille Savage Rogers & Frank Hubbard Rogers Scholarship
Criteria: For undergraduate students who demonstrate financial need and are in good academic standing.
Jane & Foster Sanders Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in education, in good academic standing, and with a demonstrated financial need.
Rev. Harold Sharber Scholarship
Criteria: For students who are active in KWC Campus Ministries or seeking to pursue a ministerial life. Students must be enrolled full-time and have a 2.0 or higher cumulative GPA with demonstrated financial need.
The Preacher’s Aid Society of Kentucky Scholarship
Criteria: For full-time enrolled students who are children of an active minister in the Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church, planning to pursue a calling to ministerial life, participating in Campus Ministries activities, in good standing with a 2.5 cumulative GPA or higher. Preference for students with a demonstrated financial need.
Charles Stauffer Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students with demonstrated financial need and in good academic standing.
Jeffrey L. Stein Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students who are members of either the men’s or women’s golf teams with demonstrated financial need.
Stephenson Endowment Scholarship
Criteria: For students pursuing a career in social work or a related field, or library sciences or a related field. Must be in good academic standing with at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA and have unmet financial need.
Rachel C. & G. Wallace Thacker Scholarship
Criteria: For students intent on pursuing a law degree after KWC graduation at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. Must have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA at KWC with an LSAT score in the top half nationally. Preference is given to students demonstrating financial need. Contact the Dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law for more information and how to apply.
James & Shirley Thurmond Endowed Scholarship
Criteria: For students who are residents of Kentucky with demonstrated financial need.
William “Jack” Turbeville, Jr. Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in business, who are in good academic standing, and have demonstrated financial need.
Charles Venable Memorial Scholarship
Criteria: For students from Clark County, Kentucky. The second preference is students with demonstrated financial need and in good academic standing.
Edward T. and Jane Watson Scholarship
Criteria: For students with demonstrated financial need.
Dr. Janice Farmer Weaver Scholarship
Criteria: For a student who is at least a sophomore studying to be a teacher, in good standing at KWC with at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA. Preference for a first-generation college student and Federal Work Study eligible.
White-Schmeal Scholarship
Criteria: For students majoring in a business discipline, with at least a 2.8 cumulative GPA, and involved in campus life and/or community volunteer organizations. Preference for those with a demonstrated financial need.
Lester E. Yeager Scholarship
Criteria: For students in good academic and student conduct standing who demonstrate financial need.