Date: January 2026

To: FIT AAS Candidates

From: The UCE Leadership Scholarship Awards Committee
Re: Nominating Guidelines for the 2025 UCE Leadership Scholarship

The selection process for UCE Leadership Scholarship Awards begins with you. Scholarship awards are possible for graduating two-year AAS candidates who continue their education at FIT in an upper division program. The scholarships are up to $3,000.

We are asking you to self-nominate if you are a two-year AAS candidates with a 3.25 GPA or higher. The candidate must have clearly demonstrated Leadership & Community Service. Candidates must be eligible to attend Commencement in May 2026, and must be a full time FIT upper division student in the Fall of 2026 in Art & Design or Business & Technology.

Minimum requirements for all of the UCE Leadership Scholarships are:

• You are a two-year AAS candidate with a GPA of 3.25 or higher;
• You will complete a two-year FIT AAS program by May 2026;
• You have clearly demonstrated leadership and community service, either at FIT (for instance in a student organization, varsity team, student life, as a community volunteer) or off campus in your community in the past two years (employment, service for academic credit or paid activities are not considered volunteer service);
• You provide documentation of any volunteer, community and leadership activities in the past two years such as a letter from your volunteer supervisor;
• You will be a full-time FIT upper division student in the Fall 2026 in Art & Design or Business & Technology (If acceptance is pending, be sure to indicate details in a memo to us. You should submit the scholarship questionnaire and keep us posted);
• You have no more than 6 transfer credits towards your FIT AAS degree;
• You provide three letters of recommendation;
• You will be available for an interview by the Scholarship Committee in the Spring.

There are five different awards. In addition to the minimum requirements listed above,  there are special requirements for the four named awards – they are the Louis Stollar, George Levinson, Joseph Garofalo and Judith Parkas scholarships. 

Please complete the attached questionnaire and submit it with a photocopy of your Spring 2026 class schedule and your Fall audit-- emailed to ucescholarshipapplication@gmail.com, by 5:00pm on Friday, March 20, 2026. Letters of recommendation must be emailed directly by your references.

The UCE Scholarship Awards Committee will consider only complete applications and screen students for their Leadership, Service & Academic qualifications regarding these awards. The committee will interview final candidates.

2026 Recommendation Form

2026 Application