Jewish Holocaust Centre Wilson Family Award

Eligibility and selection criteria

Eligibility

To be considered for this award, you must:

• Be an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person by descent, identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, and be accepted as such by the community in which you live or have lived
• Be enrolled full-time in the second or third year of an undergraduate degree course at the University of Melbourne and have achieved a Course Weighted Average of at least 65
• Be experiencing financial difficulties
• Have outstanding personal qualities, including a demonstrated commitment to social justice and/or Holocaust studies.

Selection criteria

Eligible applicants are selected on the basis of financial need, personal qualities, and taking into consideration academic merit and other Awards awarded to the applicant.

Conditions

• Students must affirm and maintain their eligibility for support for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. See: Establishing your eligibility
• You must be enrolled in a course of study with the University of Melbourne.
• Commencement of the scholarship cannot be deferred to the following calendar year.
• You must provide a brief report on the benefits of the scholarship upon request and give permission for the University to provide the report and your name and course details to the donor of this scholarship.
• You must acknowledge the support of the Scholarship in any publication, advertisement, lecture, seminar, workshop, performance or exhibition issuing from the scholarship with the phrase: "Supported by the Jewish Holocaust Centre Wilson Family Award."