AACA Scholarships

The AACA is proud to sponsor two scholarships per year in the amount of $1,500 each to currently enrolled undergraduate students.  Details of the scholarships are as follows:

  1. The AACA Scholarship is awarded to two undergraduate student enrolled in the College of Agriculture, preferably a junior or senior in the entomology, agronomy or plant pathology department.
  2. Arkansas residents will be given priority.
  3. Students working toward a pest management related degree will be given priority.
  4. The scholarship winners will be chosen on the basis of grade point average (2.5 minimum GPA), financial need, leadership, participation in extra-curricular activities, and interest in pest management.
  5. Each participating college will submit up to six candidates for the scholarship by March 1st  to the AACA Scholarship Committee.
  6. The Scholarship Committee will review each petition and select the students to receive the $1,500 scholarship based on the criteria listed in item number 4 above.
  7. The scholarship recipients and the Dean of the College of Agriculture will be notified and the AACA Treasurer will issue checks made payable to the appropriate students.

 

The AACA also sponsors one scholarship in the amount of $750 for a high-school senior who will be enrolling as a freshman. Details of the scholarship are as follows:

  1. Current high school senior in the state of Arkansas.
  2. Student planning a course of study in the agricultural fields of entomology, agronomy or plant pathology.
  3. Students working toward a pest management related degree will be given priority.
  4. The scholarship winner will be chosen on the basis of grade point average (2.5 minimum GPA), financial need, leadership, participation in extra-curricular activities, and interest in pest management.
  5. The AACA will accept up to and no more than ten candidates for consideration by March 1st.
  6. The scholarship committee will review each petition and select the student to receive the $750.00 scholarship based on the criteria listed in item number four.  One scholarship will be awarded.
  7. The scholarship recipient and the High School Guidance Counselor will be notified.  The AACA treasurer will issue a check made payable to the appropriate student.