An initiative of the Language Connects Foundation, the Teacher Scholarship and Awards Program provides merit-based funding to graduating high school seniors committed to pursuing the language teaching profession in languages other than English. Scholars receive an annual award of $1,500 per academic year, renewable to a cumulative total of $6,000 per recipient, as well as 1-year complimentary ACTFL membership including access to the ACTFL Mentorship Program aimed at early-career language teachers upon entry into the field. Visit the Teacher Scholarship Program page to learn more about this initiative. Most applications open in Spring.

NEW ! 

ABLE Institute for new/future Black language educators with travel/living stipend: 

The ACTFL Black Language Educators (ABLE) Institute. This program is one way that ACTFL is trying to address the need for a more diverse professional community of world language educators. The institute is a five-day immersive program for up to 8 aspiring Black language teachers, offering stipends, support, mentorship, and leadership training. The dates for this year are July 28 - August 1 (Monday-Friday) at Howard University (Washington, DC). Refer to this flyer for more details. The program is open to any current undergraduate student who identifies as Black and who fits into one or more of the following categories: is enrolled in a teacher education program in world language education; is enrolled in a teacher education program in any discipline and has a background or interest in studying a world language; is majoring or minoring in a world language (or considering such a major/minor) and is interested in learning more about the teaching profession. Please reach out to LJ Randolph lj.randolphjr@wisc.edu, if you have any questions.

Seal of Biliteracy Achievement Scholarship

LTI, Language testing International, an exclusive licensee of ACTFL and the OLEA have postd application information for three annual small scholarships ($200, $300, $500) with a Mar-May 31 application window. It could be a nice way to honor a student and help with testing costs. 

Teachers can nominate a student with a written or video perspective on that student’s efforts and achievement to obtain the seal. The student also creates a video on the annual theme, such as “language is an asset” and “language is a super power.”

Support for Dyslexics, UK and International: Lex Academic Humanities Scholarships. "At Lex Academic, we recognise the important contribution of dyslexic individuals to academic research and broader society. Often meeting with discouragement in mainstream education, we believe that exceptionally promising dyslexic students deserve investment and support, helping them to realise the potential of their ideas." To nurture talented researchers with dyslexia, the Lex Academic Humanities Scholarship is granted annually to 3 students studying any of the following humanities subjects, post grad: Art History; Classics; English; History; Modern Languages; and Philosophy. Past grants have included a grant of £500, and gratis editorial services for their MA/PhD thesis or dissertation. You must have been diagnosed with dyslexia by an educational psychologist to be eligible for an award. Annual applications begin in January.

CANE THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND offers many travel scholarships, certification and professional development scholarships are available for college level students and teachers at all levels. A NEW diversity outreach scholarship: The Helen Maria Chesnutt Scholarship for Equity in Classical Study. Application Deadline: January 15. The Helen Maria Chesnutt Scholarship is intended to support undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented groups to further their study of the Classics and Ancient Mediterranean world, broadly conceived both in geographic limits and time-frame, and not excluding reception-studies, which brings the temporal span of the studied period down to the present day. This award may be used for research, study, travel, or for other plans relevant to study of the Ancient Mediterranean. (Application form)

University of Virginia’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences announced a new, fully-funded, Bridge to the Doctorate program. They accept applications each year (March deadline) to join the Fall Cohort of Bridge to the Doctorate Fellows. As part of a deep commitment to diversifying graduate programs, the professoriate and the research workforce, the Graduate School seeks to support post-baccalaureate students from groups that are underrepresented in their disciplines and who have not had sufficient training and research experiences to prepare them for admission to doctoral programs. Mentoring and approximate $24,000 per annum stipend. 

New cohorts every 2 years! Texas Tech University offers a rolling, 2 year, fully funded Master’s Program for students in Classics heading for K-12 or Ph.D. Options for focus on Latin, Greek, teacher training, archeology, research. Broad-ranging and individualized. Click for program details and director contact.

Though not tuition-free, Kent State offers one of the only completely online programs for a Master of Arts in Latin. See their website for more details.

Highly-qualified candidates to Tulane University's Graduate Program in Classical Studies may receive tuition remission and stipend. For more information, see the department website.

In addition to routinely nominating or recommending exemplary undergraduate majors for national, regional, local and university awards, The University of Wisconsin's  Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies offers the following competitions annually:

• Ruth M. Kuhlman Undergraduate Scholarship (Applications open in November, Deadline early February)

• Gertrude E. Slaughter Summer Study Scholarship (Applications open in November, Deadline early February)

• Logan Prize for Greek Translation

• Pillinger Prize for Latin Translation

See their website for more details. Undergraduate Scholarship Awards can be used for study abroad, archeology experiences, and extra-university programs. These internal awards are open to all UW undergraduates, but reflecting the diversity of the student body is an active consideration of applications. The CANES department welcomes underrepresented and/or marginalized undergraduates. 

The third-oldest college in the United States, St. John’s is known for the Great Books curriculum where all students study 3,000 years of philosophy, literature, history, politics, mathematics, religion, physics, music, and more, from the ancient world to the modern. Students study across disciplines directly from Plato, Euclid, Livy, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Aristophanes, and more.

      Undergraduate students: All freshmen at St. John’s study Ancient Greek and bring the lessons of the classical world to more modern texts by Shakespeare, Austen, Nietzsche, Einstein, and more. Based on the quality of the application, students are eligible for merit and need-based scholarships ranging up to full tuition.

     Teachers and graduate students: In the four-semester Master of Arts in Liberal Arts program at St. John’s, literature and philosophy classes are heavily focused on the classical world, and students have the option to study Ancient Greek. Teachers are guaranteed 50% off tuition, and some full-tuition scholarships for teachers are available each year, too.