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Direct Deposit NOW available!
Get your financial aid loan disbursement check faster with direct deposit. Law student loan disbursements for fall will begin Friday, August 5. To learn how to register for direct deposit, go to http://www.uakron.edu/student-accounts/refunds/
Need to secure a financial aid loan for summer 2011? Please go to The University of Akron’s Office of Financial Aid web page to get started at http://www.uakron.edu/finaid/applying-for-aid/summer-aid.dot
Questions about your financial aid loans? Please contact Director of Student Services Center Pamela Arrington at pamela8@uakron.edu.
The Wooster, OH law firm Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston is offering two $1,000 scholarships. The first scholarship is for diverse students and the other is for current or former residents of Ashland, Holmes, Know, Medina and Wayne counties. These scholarships are for the 2011-2012 school year. Completed applications must be received by Friday, July 15. Further information and application forms are available in the Career Planning Office.
ATTN: Female Law Students
Applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 Robert E. Donovan Memorial Scholarship. (APPLICATION AVAILABLE HERE!)
Robert Donovan died in a plane crash over Bosnia on April 3, 1996. The plane crash killed the U.S. commerce secretary and 33 other leaders who were on a trade mission to help rebuild the war-ravaged country once called Yugoslavia. Robert’s daughter, Kara Donovan, was in her final semester at The University of Akron School of Law at the time of her father’s death.
Academic merit and financial need will be considered by the Donovan Scholarship Committee.
DEADLINE: Monday, April 18, 2011
The Ohio Women’s Bar Foundation (OWBF) will be granting a scholarship in the amount of$I,OOO to one law student for the 20 11-12 school year. The deadline for submission is March 31,2011 and the scholarship will be presented to the winner at Ohio Women’s Bar Association Annual function in May in Columbus, Ohio. Date: TBA
For an application form, please e-mail Adam Messner at apm@uakron.edu.
The OWBF and the OWBA work closely together. Formed in 2008, the Ohio Women’s Bar Foundation mission is to research, analyze, compile, publish and distribute educational materials to enable women attomeys and those interested in encouraging women attorneys to become more proficient in their profession with the assistance of their local and national woman’s bar associations. The OWBA is a 501 (c) (3).
The Ohio Women’s Bar Association (OWBA) was formed in 1991 in order to build a community oflawyers who are interested in the issues that uniquely affect women. The OWBA will be celebrating its 20th year. The mission of the OWBA is to promote the leadership, advancement and interests ofwomcll attorneys through professional education, networking and the exchange of ideas between our members, local bar associations, business and the community.
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