Raven Spirit Award *

Please email Woodring.Scholarships@wwu.edu to check annual availability.

It is the donor’s intent to provide scholarships for deserving indigenous*/native students, who will be applying to, or are enrolled in, the Woodring College of Education (including students earning a minor in Education and Social Justice).  It is the donor’s desire that these students have a personal goal for positively contributing to the traditions, health, welfare, education and well-being of their community and language.  Through an earned degree, license, or certificate, they should intend to use their education and subsequent career to better their indigenous/native community, while preserving its language and culture.  Whenever possible, preference will be made to applicants who demonstrate the following, in descending order of priority:

• Speak, or are in the process of reclaiming, their indigenous/native language;

• Belong to an indigenous/native community

• Have a history of a commitment to actively supporting, preserving, and advancing their community, language, and culture survival, based on the selection committee’s assessment on a year-to-year basis;

• Are at least in their second year of higher education (either at WWU or as a transfer student) at time of award (including post-baccalaureate and graduate students), with higher preference given to students who are at least in their third year.

The scholarship may be renewed for up to two years as long as the student maintains eligibility.

* Indigenous is synonymous with Tribal Peoples, First Peoples and Native Peoples from around the globe and includes peoples from tribes not federally recognized by the United States government.