Grant & Scholarship Limitations & Renewals
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Institutional grant awards require the following:
A valid FAFSA.
A complete SPU financial aid file (all documents and requirements submitted and/or completed).
Maintaining half-time enrollment (six or more credits per quarter for undergraduates)
Institutional scholarships require the following:
Full-time status (12 or more SPU credits per quarter).
Continuous enrollment in SPU credits. (If you have a break in enrollment, you will forfeit your scholarships unless you have received an exception from SFS prior to leaving SPU.)
Additionally, University policy states that the quarterly total of institutional awards (i.e., grants, scholarships, and tuition discounts) cannot exceed a student’s quarterly cost of tuition. If the total institutional aid for a quarter exceeds the quarterly cost of tuition, institutional aid will be reduced in this order: tuition discount, grant, scholarship.
Distinguished Scholars may receive institutional aid up to the cost of tuition and room and board as defined in the financial aid cost of attendance. Athletes, ASSP Scholarship recipients and resident advisors are covered under separate policies, which allow institutional aid to exceed tuition.
All institutional awards also have additional criteria for continued eligibility, which is detailed below.
Freshmen Specific Awards
Distinguished Scholar Award (formerly SPU Scholar Award)*
Maximum timeframe: four years
Maximum credits covered per quarter: 20 credits
Eligibility criteria: 3.25 cumulative GPA
Trustees’ Scholar Award*
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
President’s Scholar Award*
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
Deans’ Scholar Award*
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.60 cumulative GPA
SPU Value Award*
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Must file a FAFSA each year
Falcon Legacy Award
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
National Merit Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
FIRST Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
SPU Honors Merit Fellows Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA, must participate in University Scholars program
Early Success Award
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Transfer Specific Awards
Transfer Honors Scholar Award*
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
Transfer Merit Scholar Award*
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
Transfer Achievement Scholar Award*
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 2.60 cumulative GPA
Direct Transfer Degree Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
SPU Transfer Value Award*
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Must file a FAFSA each year
Transfer Select Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Transfer Success Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Other Awards
Falcon Bound
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA and continued eligibility for WA State College Bound Scholarship
Ames Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.50 cumulative GPA
Free Methodist Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
Alumni Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Ministry Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: senior status
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Fine Arts Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: renewed on approval by Fine Arts Department
Eligibility criteria: renewed on approval by Fine Arts Department
SPU Visit Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: one year
Eligibility criteria: be enrolled full time
Athletic
Maximum timeframe: renewed on approval by Athletic Department
Eligibility criteria: renewed on approval by Athletic Department
Philip W. Eaton Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years; senior status
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA
Provost Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
ROTC Academic Achievement Award
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 3.00 cumulative GPA; Air Force or Army ROTC scholarship recipient; live in campus housing. Students may receive it only in combination of either the ROTC Tuition Scholarship or SPU merit scholar awards, but not both.
California Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Oregon Scholarship
Maximum timeframe: four years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
Employee Spouse/Dependent Tuition Discount
Maximum timeframe: five years; no limit for employees
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
SPU Grant
Maximum timeframe: five years
Eligibility criteria: 2.00 cumulative GPA
* A student may receive no more than one of the awards noted with an (*) during the same academic year.
Entities Affected By This Policy
All SPU Grant & Scholarship Recipients
Policy Version: 1.0
Responsible Office: Student Financial Services
Responsible Executive: Assistant VP for Enrollment Operations and Student Financial Services
Effective Date: June 16, 2019
Last Updated: June 16, 2019