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Overview

Student Scholarship Opportunities in the School of Civic Leadership

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The School of Civic Leadership offers three merit-based scholarship opportunities. 

Inspired by the University Seal, the Civitatis, Praesidium, and Disciplina scholarships reflect the virtues the School of Civic Leadership invites students to cultivate: civic responsibility, moral leadership, and practical wisdom.

Students who gain admission to the University of Texas and the School of Civic Leadership will receive automatic consideration for these scholarship opportunities. SCL sends award letters on a rolling basis beginning in early February and continuing through mid-April.

The School of Civic Leadership will renew awards annually for recipients who are in good standing.

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Civitatis Scholarships

SCL awards the Civitatis Scholarship ($12,000, or full in-state tuition) to exceptional incoming first-year students whose record of academic achievement and civic responsibility indicate a distinctive capacity to excel in SCL.

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Praesidium Scholarship

SCL awards the Praesidium Scholarship ($6,000, or half of in-state tuition) to outstanding incoming first-year students who demonstrate a strong potential to excel in the School of Civic Leadership.

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Disciplina Scholarship

SCL awards the Disciplina Scholarship ($2,500) to incoming first-year or transfer students based on merit.

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Chris Madrid Memorial Scholarship

The Chris Madrid Memorial Scholarship honors Chris Madrid’s legacy of generosity, community service, and support for education by helping students from the San Antonio area pursue public-minded leadership. The scholarship was established by his wife, Carolyn Madrid, and children, Lisa Waller and Michael Madrid, in partnership with the School of Civic Leadership at UT Austin.

Eligibility

Scholarships are available to students in both School of Civic Leadership majors.

All incoming School of Civic Leadership students receive automatic consideration for the Civitatis, Praesidium, and Disciplina Scholarships.  There is no separate application for these scholarships. Awards are based on academic achievement, intellectual potential, and a demonstrated commitment to civic leadership.

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Requirements:

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Academic achievement and intellectual potential
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Demonstrated interest in civic responsibility and leadership
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Capacity to thrive in a rigorous, interdisciplinary program
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Application Process

Distinguish SCL Scholarships

There is no separate scholarship application for most awards. Instead, eligibility is determined through your application to the University of Texas at Austin and the School of Civic Leadership.

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Apply for
Admission

Submit your application to the University of Texas and indicate your interest in a School of Civic Leadership major.

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Complete
Required Review

Be sure to submit your required materials to complete your application to the University of Texas. Follow the UT Application Checklist

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Scholarship
Review

SCL considers all admitted students for scholarships.

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Award Notification

From February to mid-April, SCL releases scholarship awards on a rolling basis.

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Rosenthal-Levy Scholarship Program

The Rosenthal-Levy Scholars Program is a private scholarship wholly administered by Tikvah. While Rosenthal-Levy Scholars operates in partnership and coordination with The University of Texas at Austin, Rosenthal-Levy Scholars and The University of Texas at Austin maintain independent operations and administration. Any views, opinions, or recommendations expressed by the Rosenthal-Levy Scholars program do not reflect the official position of The University of Texas at Austin.

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FAQs

What majors does SCL offer?

SCL offers two majors: Civics Honors and Great Books Honors.

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What does Honors mean in SCL?

The honors curriculum in SCL challenges students to cultivate, and then demonstrate, an exceptional level of academic maturity. All SCL academic majors challenge students to intensive reading, writing, and speaking.

The skills students need to lead well are difficult to acquire. SCL faculty, tutors, and mentors guide students in their quest to cultivate habits of careful reading, thoughtful writing, and compelling rhetoric.

SCL offers two honors majors, Civics Honors and Great Books Honors. In Civics Honors, all students complete a thesis and an internship. In Great Books Honors, all students participate in a focused small-group course sequence dedicated to reason, rhetoric, and virtue, then choose from a thesis, capstone, or internship.

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What is the starting point for civic education in SCL?

The School of Civic Leadership offers a pre-partisan education that prepares students for success across career paths. Before citizens can deal competently with the issues of the day, they need an education that enables them to wrestle with—and draw on the wisdom of—the traditions that inform American life.  Spirited, thoughtful, and open to critical self-reflection, this pre-partisan education introduces students to moral and intellectual resources that can orient their own lives.

What kind of student thrives in SCL?

SCL might be your intellectual home if you want a serious intellectual challenge, you’re eager to do something good in the world, and you’re excited to make friends.

The SCL intellectual challenge centers on intensive reading, writing, speaking, and deliberation.  SCL faculty, tutors, and mentors guide students in developing these key leadership skills.

The SCL academic program starts with the big questions: what does it mean to live well? What is justice? How do American constitutional principles enable citizens to think differently and yet live together? SCL majors explore these questions through essential texts of the western intellectual tradition and American constitutional experiment. You’ll thrive in SCL if you want to thoughtfully engage these questions and texts.

Texas Civic Leadership is a fit for students who want to ask big questions and cultivate deep skills to prepare for a life of service across a range of careers.

What kinds of careers would I train for in SCL?

SCL offers a classical and professional education to prepare students for business and entrepreneurship, science and technology, education and law, or public service and diplomacy. Civic leadership starts here.

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