Scholarships and Awards

The Communications Academic area strives to recognize and encourage our outstanding students through scholarships and awards each year. We look forward to the honors convocation each year where these students are celebrated.

Scholarships

The Communications Academic Area offers the following scholarship opportunities for current students:

The Communications Merit Scholarship

The Communications Merit Scholarship is awarded to students in any Communications-area program: English, Speech or World Languages. To qualify for this award, recipients must:

  • Be enrolled in 6 or more credits each semester
  • Take a minimum of 6 credit hours in the Academic Area that sponsors their scholarship during the academic year
  • Must earn 20 NMC credits by Fall of the award year
  • Maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better
  • Maintain a 3.25 GPA in the academic area the sponsors your scholarship
  • Complete the required essay, a response to the prompt: “Describe how you plan to make use of your communications-related educational experiences — English, Speech, World Languages or Communications courses and activities — in your future endeavors: educational, civic, or career related. Please submit an essay of no more than 400 words.”

The Joseph Noverr Scholarship

The Joseph Noverr Scholarship is awarded to a student in the Communications & Speech or English Program. Qualifications include:

  • Maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better
  • Be enrolled in 6 or more credits
  • Be a resident of the NMC Service Area (Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Kalkaska, & Wexford Counties).
  • Submit the required essay, “Describe how you plan to make use of your communications-related educational experiences — English, Speech, World Languages or Communications courses and activities — in your future endeavors: educational, civic, or career related. Please submit an essay of no more than 400 words.

The Jaquish Journalism Scholarship

The Jaquish Journalism Scholarship is awarded to a staff member of the Northwestern Michigan College newspaper regardless of program of study, residency, or enrollment status. A piece of journalism that the student wrote this year should be submitted when applying. Recipients must have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better.

Our scholarships can be applied to through the NMC General Scholarship Application. After you have completed the general application, an overnight processing program will run, and the next day you will be matched with specific scholarship opportunities that you qualify for that require applications. Once the overnight processing has matched you with scholarships, you will be able to find our Merit award, the Joseph Noverr Award, and the Jaquish Journalism award. After the scholarship system has processed your general application, you can search for these specific scholarships and complete the additional questions needed (described above within the eligibility criteria).

If interested in applying for these scholarships, note that applications and supporting information should be submitted between January 1 and March 1 each year.

Department Awards

The English, Speech and World Languages departments award honors to promising and outstanding students in each area at the NMC Honors Convocation each the spring. These honors come with a certificate of recognition and a small monetary gift. These awards serve as a way for each department to recognize students who did not apply for or did not qualify for our area scholarships, but who are deserving of recognition and celebration for their studies in our academic areas. Students are chosen for department awards based on instructor nominations.

If you have questions about our scholarships or awards, please contact the Communications Area office at:

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