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Scholarship Requirements 2025/2026

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Scholarship Recipient Obligations

  1. 1. Maintain Good Academic Standing: The student recipient shall maintain a GPA of at least 2.5 throughout their academic program and maintain satisfactory academic standing per university standards. Students must progress in their degree program and stay on the timeline of a 4-to-5-year completion. Must be enrolled as a full-time student, which is 12 credit hours minimum.

  2. 2. Participate in Community Engagement: The student recipient shall participate in one volunteer activity a semester organized through Impact Scholars or another on campus group. They will track their participation and report back to the Impact Schaolrs Program Manager. This encourages students to give back to their campus community and pay it forward.

  3. 3. Meeting with Mentor: The student recipient shall meet with the Impact Scholars program Manager once before the semester starts to ensure they have all the resources they need for the semester. Meeting as needed are welcomed but not required.

Tuition Scholarship (Nonrefundable): Impact Scholars will cover a portion of student tuition as program funds permit. Students will be informed at least 3 months in advance of the tuition due date on how much Impact Scholars is able to support in tuition scholarships. Scholarships will be allocated annually, and students will have the opportunity to apply for scholarships annually.

Requirements:

  1. Students must register for the academic year and classes for the indicated term.
  2. Students must apply for and accept any other scholarships available to them, including
  3. but not limited to funding from state and federal agencies, private organizations, and
  4. through the student’s college/academic department.
  5. Complete and submit FAFSA forms (if eligible)
  6. Student must apply for the Impact Scholars Tuition Scholarship
  7. Student’s must send proof of requested amount to the Program Manager (screenshot of
  8. tuition summary serves as the requested amount)
  9. Students must sign the scholarship acceptance form.
  10. Students must maintain recipient obligations listed above.

Distribution Frequency: Distributed once a semester before tuition is due and will be added directly to students’ accounts to pay for any tuition and fees.

The student’s will be prioritized for scholarships if they meet any or all of these circumstances:

  1. 25 years of age or older.

  2. Completed 60 credits or more.

  1. Demonstrate significant financial need.

  2. Hasn’t received any other institutional, federal, state, institutional or private scholarship

    award.

The scholarships and additional funding provided by Impact Scholars may be terminated if the student recipient fails to meet any of the obligations described above, or if Impact Scholars determines that the student recipient has engaged in conduct that is contrary to the values and mission of the Impact Scholars program. Those values include no longer being in good academic standing according to University of Utah standard. Violating the University of Utah Policy 4- 600: Student Rights and Responsibilities. Based on the scholarship the student is receiving they must meet those specific scholarship requirements. As well as meeting Impact Scholar Program requirements as well, listed below:

1. Meet with the Impact Scholars program manager twice a semester.

2. Students are responsible for setting up reoccurring meetings with the Program Manager at the start of the semester. These meetings should be scheduled out for the entire semester.

3. If students are unable to attend the scheduled meeting due to an emergency or illness, they must let the Program Manager know in advance and reschedule their meeting.

4. These meetings should be scheduled for the 3rd and 4th week of the semester (after students have taken their first tests) as well as around finals to discuss grades and degree progression.

5. Participate in one Impact Scholars-hosted service project per semester

6. Participate in at least one Impact Scholars event or programs per semester (online or in- person). An outline of events are listed below.

  1. Community Engagement: Service projects and group volunteer opportunities
  2. Community Building: Monthly dinners and regular social events, networking events c. Executive Functioning and Life Skills: Tax workshops, FASFA workshops, Time Management workshops, study halls and tutoring

7. Obtain and regularly meet with the program coordinator.

Student are responsible to reach out to Juli Martinez at juli.martinez.tapia@utah.eduat the start of each semester to set up a meeting. Juli will then determine how often she needs to meet with each student based on her assessment.

8. Meet with their academic advisor once a semester and enroll in courses in alignment with the degree completion plan created with your advisor.

If a student’s scholarship is at risk of being terminated the Impact Scholars Program Coordinator will notify the student via email as soon as grades are finalized for that previous semester. The Program Manager will also list why the scholarship is being terminated and provide a timeline before termination will take place, and items in which the student will need to complete to return to good standing.

*If students are no longer in good academic standing or fail to meet any of the requirements listed above, they will have a semester to correct this. They will be required to meet with the Impact Scholars Program manager monthly as well as submit a progress plan to the Program Manager if they are no longer in good academic standing* 

Glossary of Terms

Refundable Scholarship: A refundable scholarship is a scholarship that can be refunded to thestudent. Alternatively, a refundable credit can give you a refund when the credit is more than student owes in tuition fees.

Non-Refundable Scholarship: The scholarship will cover the cost the student owes in tuition and any amount that is not used will be returned to the department that issued the scholarship.

 

Impact Scholars Student Support Fund (Refundable)
Impact Scholars will establish a support fund, which may apply for by students in the Impact Scholars program, and be used by the student recipient in the case of unforeseen circumstances, such as medical emergencies, family crises, broken essential technology, or other similar situations determined eligible. The student recipient may apply to Impact Scholars for access to the support fund, and if approved, the funds will be provided to the student recipient in the form of a refundable scholarship.
Requirements:
1. Students must register for the academic year and classes for the indicated term

2. Students must sign the scholarship acceptance form

3. Students must maintain recipient obligations listed below

4. Students must participate in one community service activity per semester. (These hours must be signed off on and submitted to the Impact Scholar Program Manager by the end of the semester)

5. Students must submit FASFA award letters and tuition summary to the Impact Scholar Program Manager.

Distribution Frequency: Applications will open once a month; amounts will be distributed based on need, determined by FASFA award letters and tuition summary. Funds will be distributed into the student’s account and may take up to a week or longer before they can be accessed.

 

Last Updated: 5/6/26