RALEIGH, N.C. – Beginning with the 2017-18 academic year Campbell Law will add a fourth competitive scholarship to its current arsenal of opportunities. The Achievement Scholar Award will be offered annually to one high-achieving student who has overcome significant obstacles in life, such as socio-economic or educational hardships, disabilities or other major challenges. The scholarship will be automatically renewable each year provided the student remains in good academic standing.
Applications are currently being accepted for the new scholarship offering with a March 15, 2017 deadline looming. To access the applications, simply click here.
“Our law school is committed to doing all we can to make sure that every qualified student that wants to use the law as a means to serve others has the opportunity to do so,” said Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard. “Many of those with such a desire want to help others because they themselves have experienced and overcome significant adversity and challenges throughout their life. The Achievement Scholar Award will create a path for one successful applicant to pursue their dream each year.”
The Achievement Scholar Award comes as a welcome addition to three previously established, highly prestigious, full-tuition competitive scholarships for exceptional applicants: The Cheshire Schneider Advocacy Scholarship, the Leadership Scholar Award and the Public Service Scholar Award.
The Cheshire Schneider Advocacy Scholarship stays true to Campbell Law’s mission to educate and develop vigorous advocates for championing and defending individual liberties and justice. The scholarship is offered annually and renewable each year to one student with demonstrable success in advocacy programs such as debate or mock trial during high school and/or college experiences.
The Leadership Scholar Award keeps with the law school’s efforts to educate graduates who will become effective advocates and leaders for legal and social justice. The scholarship is offered annually and renewable each year to one student with demonstrated leadership skills and the potential to become a leader in the law.
The Public Service Scholar Award relates to Campbell Law’s history of educating highly competent, deeply compassionate lawyers who seek to serve others through the law. The scholarship is offered annually and renewable each year to one exceptionally-qualified student with plans to practice law in service to the public.
Historically, Campbell Law has rewarded excellence in the classroom with the Dean’s Excellence Scholarship and provided Campbell University graduates the Campbell Undergraduate Scholarship. In 2013 the law school added the Honoratos Emeritus Scholarship, providing an annual $15,000 renewable scholarship to any qualified veteran offered admission who served honorably. For veterans, the scholarship, when paired with the G.I. Bill, essentially amounts to a full-tuition scholarship.
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Since its founding in 1976, Campbell Law School has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. The school has twice received the Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association, honoring its First-Year Professionalism Development Series in 2003 and the Connections mentorship program in 2016. The school has also been recognized by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 3,900 alumni, including more than 3,000 who reside and work in North Carolina. In September 2009, Campbell Law relocated to a state-of-the-art building in downtown Raleigh. For more information, visit http://law.campbell.edu.
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