The NDSU Staff Senate is offering scholarships to eligible NDSU broadbanded staff and to children of broadbanded staff. The application deadline for these scholarships is Friday, May 22. To be eligible, broadbanded staff applicants must be NDSU employees who have been employed for at least one year from the application deadline and be properly enrolled with a minimum of three undergraduate or two graduate credits at the time of application and at the time of the award disbursement.

Applicants must have earned a minimum of nine undergraduate or six graduate credits at NDSU with a 2.5 or higher cumulative grade-point average. Broadbanded staff scholarship awards are $100. Eligible children must be a child of broadbanded staff members currently employed by NDSU for a minimum of one year from the application deadline, be properly enrolled at least half-time with a minimum of six credits per semester at NDSU with a 2.5 or higher cumulative grade-point average and be enrolled as an undergraduate student. Applicants may not have earned a bachelor's degree. The maximum scholarship amount is $500.

The scholarship committee will select the recipients prior to the 2009 fall semester. Dispersal of funds for children of broadbanded staff will be in equal installments at the beginning of fall and spring semesters. Dispersal for broadbanded staff will be at the beginning of fall semester.

Applications are available in the Office of Student Financial Services, Ceres 202, or can be found and submitted online at www.ndsu.edu/staff_senate. For more information, contact Tera Miller at tera.miller@ndsu.edu or 1-7486.